Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 16:51:48 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Peter Berdeklis <peter AT atmosp DOT physics DOT utoronto DOT ca>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Int-Hooking, DOS vs LINUX 
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On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Peter Berdeklis wrote:

> Properly written Unix code is just a recompile away from running on your
> state of the art machine.

If that were true, then I would say that I have yet to see some
``properly written Unix code''.

Unfortunately, there are too many different flavors of Unix, each one
subtly incompatible with all the rest.  You should look into sources
of any GNU package some day, to see how *hard* it is to compile on
many (but by no means all!) different Unix platforms.  Some of the
portability cannot even be achieved by #ifdef'ing, you need to
actually test the target environment (e.g., what libraries are
available) before you build the thing.