Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 20:00:07 +0200 (MESZ) From: "Hr.Ladavac" <lada@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> To: schluntz@gromit.pinpt.com (Sean J. Schluntz) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Question on Porting Windows software to X Message-ID: <199609161800.AA264216807@ws2301.gud.siemens.co.at> In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960916163342.0091e7c8@wallace.pinpt.com> from "Sean J. Schluntz" at Sep 16, 96 09:33:42 am
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E-mail message from Sean J. Schluntz contained: > I am sending this to Hackers, 'cuz I figgured that you all would know the > answer to this one. > > Looking at a larger word processing application for windows (16bit not 32) > like Word 6, WordPerfict 6 or WordStar. What do would you all think the > difficulty level and approximate time would be required to port this app to > X if you had the full sources for the orriginal application. A long time ago there was a WinApi project which mapped Win16 calls to XView libs. There are also some commercial libs of the similar sort. So, it should be almost a recompile away, but don't count on it :) > > Following up, would there be any one out there with the interest to possibly > make some royalties by working on such a project? Consulting gigs are always welcome :) /Marino
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