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In article <ARA.92Sep6000611@camelot.ai.mit.edu>, ara@zurich.ai.mit.edu (Allan Adler) writes:
 
> Is there a book or article that explains techniques of porting stuff from
> UNIX to DOS. I'm working with an 80386 MSDOS system.
 
> The immediate problem I have is getting cweave and ctangle to work
> on the 80386 MSDOS system. I obtained the source from labarea.stanford.edu
> and downloaded it. I was able to compile it with no difficulty but
> when I try to run them on the demo files wc.w, treeprint.w, wmerge.w
> I get error messages about /dev/null. That sounds like UNIX talk to me
> and I am wondering what the corresponding DOS talk would be.

There's a 386 port of CWEB available from ymir.claremont.edu in
[anonymous.tex.ibm_pc.web]cweb386.zip
The code, obviously requires a 386 or better to run.

/dev/null becomes nul: on DOS.

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-dh

Don Hosek                  
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