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From: gentry@kcdev.UUCP (Art Gentry)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: port/VX utility on HP-UX
Summary: Porting to HP-UX
Message-ID: <708@kcdev.UUCP>
Date: 12 Apr 89 12:31:31 GMT
References: <852@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Organization: AT&T Kansas City, MO.
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In article <852@krafla.rhi.hi.is>, te@rhi.hi.is (Tryggvi Edwald) writes:
> [verbage deleted]
> [wanting to know about PORT-VAX

While I have no experience with the VAX port utilities, I do have extensive
experience with PORT-UX, which is the package for porting HP1000 code to 
HP-UX.  If they did as good a job with the VAX package as they did with the
HP1000 package, you should have few problems.  The biggest problem we had,
and realisticly we caused it ourselves, was the lack of emulation of several
system calls.  Like most things in life, they (HP) did an admirable job of
writing emulation routines for most of the HP1000 calls, but not all.  And of
course, had we written more portable code, we would not have run across this
problem.  We have since moved all of our code to native mode UNIX and found the
PORT package a great intermidiate step.

Art Gentry
standard disclaimer - opinions my own, etc....