DOS to Linux migration library

[Alan Dayley]

I have begun an adventure to migrate some DOS applications, written in C,=
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be native Linux applications.  In an ideal world, I could just drop the c=
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in gcc and have it come out executable on the other end.  Of course this =
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not going to happen.

A few facts:
- Several of the apps work great under dosemu.  This is a good start but =
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any continued development happens, I don't want to continue using "DOS wo=
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compilers.
- The applications are pretty vanilla.  ie. Nothing really esoteric for m=
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needs or funky drivers.
- They do use screen/cursor/keyboard control stuff.  For those that remem=
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the DOS world that would be calls to kbhit(), cursor positioning, etc.

I know that for terminal applications, ncurses is the way to go for curso=
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stuff.  I am studying that now.  However, I wondered if anyone has built =
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seen a "library" or collection of functions that interfaces the DOS scree=
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"API" calls into ncurses calls.  I'd rather not build one if it is alread=
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out there.  Any of you heard of such a thing?  I am still looking around.

Alan