Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

[Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 7:51 AM Nicholas Geovanis <nickgeovanis@gmail.com> wrote:

On Sun, Nov 21, 2021, 6:46 AM Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup@gmx.net> wrote:

Hi,

Hans wrote:
> As far as I know, this application is written in C, it is running in
> textmode ("ncurses-mode").
> [...] I wondered, ho
> difficult for an experienced coder it will be, to get a DOS application
> natively running in linux.


> Is DOS C and Linux C compatible, so that such thing could be easy?

C is not a typical programming language on DOS. Similar to ncurses it
stems from Unix. But of course there are C compilers and *curses versions
for DOS.

Didn't Borland open-source or freeware license Turbo C++ ? The cheaper Borland C++ ? If I remember that right and you can find it, it might be the compiler that was used.

Another possibility is that they used the old Glockenspiel C++. That was absorbed by Computer Assoc who I worked for from 1989 to 1993. It may be freely available. They are called CA for several years now.

Have a nice day :)

Thomas