From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 13 16:14:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.74]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60D6837B440 for ; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 16:14:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@vivdev.com) Received: from [192.168.1.100] (dhcp043-10-151-24.nt01-c5.cpe.charter-ne.com [24.151.10.43]) by falcon.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id QAA03469; Fri, 13 Apr 2001 16:14:44 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: lists@vivdev.com (Unverified) Message-Id: In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 19:14:25 -0400 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, "Robert L Sowders" From: lists Subject: Re: Ports versus ports Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >When you port over a program to run on a particular operating system, you >are just providing the correct paths and hooks into the operating system >that are different from the old one. OK! Thanks for all the responses so far - this is the type of answer I was fishing for. I am wondering if there is more to learn starting from this answer - i.e. more precisely/rigorously/technically what are the paths and "hooks" into the OS, and so on....? thanks, chris lists@vivdev.com _____________________________________________ /"\ ASCII Ribbon campaign against E-Mail \ / in gratuitous HTML and Microsoft X proprietary formats. / \ Post no attachments to the lists! _______________________________________________ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message