From: ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se (Martin Str|mberg)
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Subject: Re: "port"
Date: 1 Nov 1998 15:18:03 GMT
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Ralph Proctor (ralphgpr AT shadow DOT net) wrote:
: Does the program have to have been a GNU program originally to
: be a port? I don't think so. I may be wrong. Please correct me.
: Of course, you may have already answered this below.

No. Any program from any platform to any other platform would be a
port.

: Okay, you will have a port after doing a lot of work.
: What you had to begin with was not a port but a ___________???????.

Eeeeh! Well, what do you have first? Hmmm, scratch-scratch... Sorry
I'm at a loss of words.

1. An idea, that makes someone

2. write a program, which is seen or discovered by somebody else, so
   he

3. ports it.

?

: Good point. I get embarrassed with some things. Next time I will
: try and see.

Well, you shouldn't be embarrased trying to learn.


Pettersson, Symphony No. 12,

							MartinS