Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

[Håkon Alstadheim <hakon@alstadheim.priv.no>]

Den 21.11.2021 14:55, skrev Nicholas Geovanis:
> 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.
I see "graphics.h" being included in the C-code, which indicates Borland 
Turbo C (says google). Find Borland Turbo C 2.x and install that under 
FreeDos, and you should be able to compile. First step for porting to 
linux would be to get rid of references to the Borland graphics library 
I guess.


> 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