Date: Fri, 22 Jan 93 11:15:22 -0700
From: jan kok <kok AT CS DOT ColoState DOT EDU>
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: porting

I have been interested in porting various FSF code and other UNIX code
to MSDOS, but each time I have tried, the task has seemed daunting.  Some
scripts would probably help.

Before anyone can write scripts, it is necesary to have an idea of what
things need to be done to port the code.  Could those who have experience
porting provide some documentation on what things commonly need to be done,
or provide pointers to some documentation?

In order for the documentation and associated scripts to be useful to as
many people as possible, the docs and scripts should be organized according
to the generality of the tasks, for example:
1) porting code from UNIX workstations to PCs
2) porting FSF code
3a) porting to MSDOS
3b) porting to OS-2
3c) porting to DesqView
4) porting specific programs, such as gcc, emacs, etc.

I guess I'm volunteering to collect and organize any docs and scripts that
people may contribute.  I'm also familiar with awk, so I may be able to
write some scripts, if I know what's needed.

Cheers,
- Jan Kok
kok AT cs DOT colostate DOT edu