From: Thomas Demmer <demmer AT LSTM DOT Ruhr-UNI-Bochum DOT De>
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Subject: Re: Dos >> Unix Conversion
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 1998 13:02:53 +0100
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Scarius wrote:
> 
> So, as part of a college course I'm taking, all the programming
> assignments have to run on the Unix machines there. I'm not
> going to have enough time to develop the assignments on them,
> so I'm going to need to move all my work from DOS to Unix. Is
> that going to be hard?
Depends. If you have writen pure ANSI-C, it's a matter of
recompile/make. If you have, OTHO, graphics stuff, 
it will be hard. 

> What exactly is involved (I've never
> used Unix). I've got some books on Unix itself, but they
> don't deal with programming and things like that. 
Nothing really speacial. When transferring files,
you'll have to strip the CR on all the text files, 
if you use ftp, this is done automatically. If you copy floppies,
you'll have to do it yourself. duconv is a program that lives
on many linux boxes to do that, dtou and utod are two files
that live in my djgpp directory, I think they came with the
shell utils. 

> Will they read DOS disks so I can transfer my programs? 
Linux and AIX do, as Eli mentioned, solaris does, too. 

> Is there
> any info around about beginning Unix programming? I assume
> the actual programs will be easy to transfer (they're in
> DJGPP with all standard stuff), but it's the actaul details
If you are lucky, the sys-op has installed gcc, so there
are hardly any problems. 
Just watchout when transferring data files, I usually forget
converting them, and that migh bring you major head-ache.

-- 
Ciao
Tom

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