From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Sep 16 13:29:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA05668 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 13:29:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from phaeton.artisoft.com (phaeton.Artisoft.COM [198.17.250.211]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA05662 for ; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 13:29:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from terry@localhost) by phaeton.artisoft.com (8.6.11/8.6.9) id NAA02806; Mon, 16 Sep 1996 13:28:42 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199609162028.NAA02806@phaeton.artisoft.com> Subject: Re: Question on Porting Windows software to X To: schluntz@gromit.pinpt.com (Sean J. Schluntz) Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 13:28:42 -0700 (MST) Cc: hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <2.2.32.19960916163342.0091e7c8@wallace.pinpt.com> from "Sean J. Schluntz" at Sep 16, 96 09:33:42 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > 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. You could use one of at least 3 "porting Windows programs to Motif" packages, one of which is "Willows" (www.willows.com). The actual difficulty in porting depends a lot on what interfaces the software uses that are not Windows-specific interfaces -- ie: you will have to convert INT 21 and other calls manually. So the quick answer is "it depends on the software". Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.