Of course it is. However I was not trying to be a guru, I was just
commenting on Shel's idea of one size fits all computing. However I
never have had that much of a problem running something I had the source
code for. Yeh, maybe it needed a tweek or two to run on the equipment I
had. But tell you what --try running a IBM mainframe application on
Windows <GRIN!> you need more than a tweek and recompile.
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David Mann wrote:
On Apr 7, 2006, at 4:07 AM, graywolf wrote:
Almost all Unix type software can be run on any of those if you can
get the source code and compile it for your system.
That's very simplified :)
Writing portable Unix software is quite an undertaking as there are
many little differences in APIs, even though the systems tend to
operate in much the same way. I've even had problems with shell
scripts, although GNU utilities help a lot if they're installed.
- Dave
