1. Cross Platform compatability
- Posted by guest at rapideuphoria.com Jan 02, 2004
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posted by: stewart at isoclass.co.uk What makes a eu program able to run on dos or linux? Will all my dos programs work on linux? thanks, StewartML
2. Re: Cross Platform compatability
- Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Jan 03, 2004
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Guest wrote: > posted by: stewart at isoclass.co.uk > > What makes a eu program able to run on dos or linux? > Will all my dos programs work on linux? Lots of programs will run on DOS or Linux without any change. If you stick to text mode output, possibly with colors and 2-d positioning, you'll have little trouble getting most DOS programs to run on Linux. If you use pixel graphics you'll have to make significant changes. Many programs run on either platform, but they might have a few places where they need code like (for example): if platform() = LINUX then system("rm tempfile", 2) else system("del tempfile", 2) end if to handle some minor differences. The ed.ex editor is like this. Maybe 99% of ed.ex is the same for either platform, but 1% uses platform() like above. Regards, Rob Craig Rapid Deployment Software http://www.RapidEuphoria.com