Date:	Mon, 25 Jan 93 09:15:11 -0500
From:	jshumate AT wrdis01 DOT robins DOT af DOT mil ( Shumate Jason;WR-ALC/DSMDC)
Subject:	Re: porting
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Cc:	kok AT cs DOT colostate DOT edu

In your message of 22 Jan 1993 at 1914 EST, you write:
> 
> Would Eric or someone care to give me a "homework" assignment, some program,
> not too complicated, for me to try to port, in order to get some experience
> at porting and to try out Eric's suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> - Jan Kok
> kok AT cs DOT colostate DOT edu


One thing Eric forgot to mention in his excellent post on porting was the
difference between signals on DOS and UNIX.  DJGPP has no support for 
signals, so you will have to watch out for that.  With regard to a homework
assignment, why not try flex-2.3.7 and bison-1.19?  Flex is real easy to port
using DJGPP.  Bison should also be fairly easy, with the added benefit that
you could upload the result to a DJGPP archive site such as math.niu.edu
and we could have a newer bison than version 1.16.
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