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Subject: Re: Porting Windows program datatype problem
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Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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>> There is a Windows open source program I would like to port to
>> FreeBSD.  It seems to compile OK, using gcc, but chokes on
>> MS/Windows only type data types like 'ulong'.  What would be the
>> easiest way to fix/convert these, or must it be done manually?
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> Sed is your friend.
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> Aryeh M. Friedman
> FloSoft Systems
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> Developer, not business, friendly
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That's fine when I know the type but I'm wanting to know what the best 
strategy to avoid having to look up everything.  Kind of like a Windows 
programmer having to look up 'size_t' and similar when you have 30 or 
more different ones to edit.