>[What the hell is the C-symbol for binary, anyway...? 0b?]
There is no standard C-symbol for binary, one should use octal or hexadecimal
representation instead (i.e. 020, 0x10 for decimal 16 (onlky an example))
>B'sides, you can't upgrade to a new Unix system w/o recompiling your programs...
This is NOT true. I have personally made one major upgrade and some 50 or 60 minor upgrades on my unix system and have never needed to recompile any programs,
beside the kernel itself. Some of these upgrades have also included an upgrade/
chande in used hardware and that was no problem either.
> > probably doesn't need to be re-compiled under different versions of DOS. I
> > regularily use HiSpeed Pascal under DOS 1.3 and 2.04. As long as my routine
> > doesn't use DOS 2.04 specific function calls, it doesn't matter where I
> > compile it or run it.
Yes, this is true if the program is corerctly written. Sadly, there are many
programs that are poorly written and nukes when tried executed on a different
machine/OS-version. Mainly games and demos are very poorly written.
(I have some programs that refuses to run if I have a HD or extra Floppy
connected, (a problem when I am not able to remove my HD very easily),
this didnt impress me very much. )
> > \| Stephen J. Johnston | sjjohnst@descartes.uwaterloo.ca /// |/
