Messages in this thread |  | | From | (Gert Doering) | Subject | Re: Perl make depend made faster (fwd) | Date | Thu, 19 Sep 1996 15:18:10 GMT |
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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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