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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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