DOS to Linux migration library

[Alan Dayley]

On Saturday 22 March 2003 08:50, Jessel Savory wrote:
> Hello Alan,
>
> I personally don't know any DOS to UNIX or LINUX conversion utilities, =
but
> may be able to help.  I've done curses for quite a while.  For remotely
> logging in through a modem on a regular phone line, it is the most
> practical way.  As we all know, GUI is too slow unless the baud rate is
> high like in a networking environment.  I use curses for both and so fa=
r
> haven't run into applications where a GUI was necessary.  For me curses
> have killed two birds with one stone.
>
> I have my own screen library of routines with ncurses.  I have looked i=
nto
> screen libraries others have done using ncurses, but could never find o=
ne
> that I liked.  They were all just too complex needing too many paramete=
rs
> and the screens looked too plain.
>
> In your case, I don't know what kinds of screen functions are being use=
d.
> If there aren't too many, I can probably slap together a conversion lib=
rary
> in a matter of minutes using functions from my own library.  If you wan=
t me
> to do this, let me know.  Just email me the names of the DOS functions =
with
> their arguments and a brief expanation touching on what the function do=
es
> and on the arguments being passed.  I can email you the source code or =
give
> it to you on a floppy.
>
> By the way, I'm very interested in LINUX internals such as making devic=
e
> drivers and anything on the kernel.  Any meeting on these topics?
>
> Jess Savory

Very generous offer, Jess.  Thank you.  I don't have the code for the mos=
t=20
screen intensive application right now.  I'll have to analyze it later.  =
It=20
would be interesting to see your library.  Have you GPL'ed it?

Alan