Emax

Hi E-Synthesist,

On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 09:33:41PM -0000, esynthesist wrote:
> Yes, it's being programmed in ANSI C (well, I'm not sure about the 
> ANSI stuff, but hey, who cares :-)

:-)

> So porting to Linux or whatever platform is definitely an option, 
> though I'm using some tricky MS-DOS calls. But these can easily be 
> replaced by MAX/LINUX system calls or maybe even by C-calls (I'm a 
> bit lazy in checking all C-libraries :-)

Actually, I'm not worried too much about those calls. 
I once had the intention to port the DOS program EMX (written in C) to
Linux, and I found that all those DOS C calls were not needed in Linux
because all is managed transparently in the kernel when simply
reading/writing from/to /dev/fd0u800. In fact, I ended up with a simple
20-lines shell script. 

> Porting requires of course the distribution of the source code. I'm 
> still struggling on that one, you know: stuff like GNU and so on. I 
> have no problem to publish the source code (in fact I like open 
> source) but the way I should do it is not clear to me yet... I have 
> to check the possibilities. 

If you have specific questions, maybe I can help. :)
First of all, make sure whether your code includes any foreign code (for
example, snippets that you copied from elsewhere) or if it is all owned
by you, because obviously you can only give away your own code :)

Have you experience in working with CVS or subversion repositories? I
can offer to host the source code, and/or a web site for news and such.

Peter
-- 
the pink cardinal imitated the big cardinal


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