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Article #876Re: InterViews under DOS???
From: Mark Linton
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1991 04:17
Date: Sun, 14 Apr 1991 04:17
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In article <1991Apr11.213307.8460@beaver.cs.washington.edu>, lottis@cs.washington.edu (Kent David Lottis) writes: |> |> but has anyone even contemplated porting InterViews to, say, MS-WINDOWS? |> |> For that matter, has anyone ported InterViews to something other than X? |> |> How firmly entrenched is InterViews in X? Linton claims that the interface |> is confined to the few X11* modules. Is this true, or are there fundamental |> architectural factors that bind InterViews to X? Would that "architectural factors" were the hardest part of portability. Anyone attempting a port to DOS will find things like 8-character filenames and C++ environment compatibility as big a headache (if not bigger) as anything architectural.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!decwrl!sgi!shinobu!odin!marktwain.rad.sgi.com!linton From: linton@marktwain.rad.sgi.com (Mark Linton) Newsgroups: comp.windows.interviews Subject: Re: InterViews under DOS??? Message-ID: <1991Apr14.041700.5434@odin.corp.sgi.com> Date: 14 Apr 91 04:17:00 GMT References: <1991Apr11.213307.8460@beaver.cs.washington.edu> Sender: news@odin.corp.sgi.com (Net News) Reply-To: linton@marktwain.rad.sgi.com (Mark Linton) Organization: sgi Lines: 13