Re: Perl make depend made faster (fwd)

Gert Doering (gert@greenie.muc.de)
Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:18:10 GMT

Herbert Wengatz <hwe@uebemc.siemens.de> writes:

>But try to port your c-program to the following machines and OS's:

>DEC-Ultrix,
>Sun-Solaris,
>Sun-SunOS,
>PC-SCO-Unix - and worst of it all:
>PC-SCO-Xenix

>I think you can't even imagine in what difficulties you will run!

Oh, for this case (simple stdio / file parsing jobs) it's very easy to
write portable programs. Serial I/O is *MUCH* more difficult :-)

gert

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