Re: Offtopic: Transfer a programm from DOS to Linux

[Daniel Haude <dhaude@posteo.de>]

> As I know, there are also bibg applications ported from DOS to linux 
> (like
> doom), I thoughtm that would be easy - just start a cross compiler, 
> then fix
> some issues, ready. But I believe, it is not that easy, I suppose, this 
> is a
> lot lot lot work. And as far as I understood, code from DOS C is far 
> from
> similar to Linux C.

The opposite is in fact true: the C language with its core library is 
highly standardized and portable across all platforms. There probably is 
no "more portable" computer language in existence. 
Implementation-specific libraries, however, are usually not portable, 
hence applications using these libraries must be adapted to the target 
system. And that bit is not "some issues" -- it's the real work.