Re: flexfax: Hylafax future

[Nico Garcia <raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu>]

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On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Christopher P. Lindsey wrote:

> > It's really horrible to convert unix code to windows. So i won't do
> > that. If someone want's to use Windows as a fax server he could buy
> > a commercial fax programm. If he want to use a free fax server he
> > can use linux or free bsd (which has also a better stability).
> 
> Thought you might find this interesting.  They've ported X libraries over
> to NT, as well as a Kerberos 5 server and various X applications
> using this free package.  Maybe it will be of use to you or anyone else
> doing a port of HylaFax:

Please note: the Kerberos implementation for Windows NT is not compatible
with the standard Kerberos release. Microsnot is once again taking someone
else's design, modifying it so it will not interoperate, and trying to
sell it as a major Microsnot product.

>      Porting Tool: GNU-WIN32 Version 18.1 Linux to Windows NT/95
> 
> 
>      GNU-WIN32 is a porting Tool for porting applications from Linux to
>      Windows NT and Windows 95. Porting applications from Linux to Windows
>      NT/95 is now even more easy. Use gnu-win32 as listed below to compile
>      the Linux applications written in GNU gcc/g++ under Windows 95/NT.
>      This makes Linux even more better as development platform. You write
>      applications under linux and port it very easily, without changing a
>      single line of code to Windows NT/Windows 95. This way, Linux
>      applications have much larger user base in Windows NT and Windows 95.
> 
>         Title : GNU-WIN32
>         Version : 18.1 B
>         http://www.cygnus.com/misc/gnu-win32
> 
>     The GNU-Win32 tools are ports of the popular GNU development tools to
>     Windows NT/95 for the x86 and PowerPC processors. Applications built
>     with these tools have access to the Microsoft Win32 API as well as
>     the Cygwin32 API which provides additional UNIX-like functionality
>     including UNIX sockets, process control with a working fork and
>     select, etc...

This seems helpful: If it's based on gcc cross-compilation, it may be
operable under other OS's as well for locations that don't run Linux.
Note that it is much easier to teach a tap dancer to walk on crutches
than to teach someone on crutches to tap dance.....

			Nico Garcia
			Engineer, CIRL 
			Mass. Eye and Ear Infirmary
			raoul@cirl.meei.harvard.edu

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