Emax

On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:06:29AM +0100, Peter Poeml wrote:
> > 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. 

...this is the archived message with the script:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/emax/message/1837

Peter, who looks forward to get back to his EmaxII which is currently
500 km away :)
-- 
the big machine that goes "ping" ate the pink cardinal


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