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Subject: Re: Question on Porting Windows software to X
To: schluntz@gromit.pinpt.com (Sean J. Schluntz)
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 20:00:07 +0200 (MESZ)
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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