Re: Intent to package: "birthday"
"Christian T. Steigies" <cts@ap031.experimentalphysik.uni-kiel.de> writes:
> On 13 Mar 1999, Andy Mortimer wrote:
>
> > The description:
> >
> > Package: birthday
> > Version: 1.0
> > Section: misc
> > Priority: optional
> > Architecture: i386
> Huh, is this i386 specific?
Er ... it's not, I just cut-and-pasted the description from the .deb
file, which happened to be compiled for i386! Sorry for the confusion
...
> Having written something similar myself, I have learned how to use
> the unix date functions with this program and its now running under
> AmigaOS, DOS, solaris and linux without problems.
There's an old version in the source code which used to run under
Windows, too, with a Nice Dialog Box and everything ... but I don't
have easy access to a Windows compiler any more. But the UNIXy parts
should be reasonably portable.
Andy
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