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From: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.unix.questions,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Btree library
Keywords: Btree C-ISAM D-ISAM c-tree B-Plus Btrieve
Message-ID: <11851@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 8 Jun 89 03:23:30 GMT
References: <870@bimacs.BITNET> <32@consult.UUCP> <883@bimacs.BITNET>
Reply-To: phoenix@ms.uky.edu (R'ykandar Korra'ti)
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In article <883@bimacs.BITNET> marmor@bimacs.BITNET (Eli Marmor) writes:
>The language in which BTrieve was written (8086 Assembly) doesn't prevent
>it from running on another OS, ON INTEL MACHINES of course !!!
>Novell has a version for Xenix, but ONLY for 80X86 family.
>There is no version for other machines, because Assembly is not portable.
>                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     If you're willing to do a little work, you could convert the machine
back into assembly, alter it a bit as needed, then cross-assemble to another
machine's machine code. (These are called cross-compilers; the utilities
that convert the machine code to assembly are called disassemblers.)
     All this assumes that you have the rights to mess with BTrieve, of
course.
                                                     - R'ykandar.

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