Re: dos/linux programming diffences

[Bob Pendleton <bobp@pendleton.com>]

Yeah, but interacting with the hardware includes talking to the disk
drive. The names of files are structured differently, / versus \ and no
"c:" in Linux. Different end of line characters in text files cause
problems too. 

The main difference though is that you can do a lot of stuff in Linux
that is hard or impossible to do with DOS. (And I mean DOS, not command
line Win32.) For example you can write socket based code in Linux that
is hard to do under DOS. Lot's of other differences. 

				Bob P.

> MartinezJ wrote:
> 
> well i would assume that any c++ code that doesnt interact with
> hardware is 100% portable to linux/unix
> 
> 
> John Martinez
> Management Information Systems
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>      -----Original Message-----
>      From: Tommi Pirinen [mailto:tommi.pirinen@dlc.fi]
>      Sent: Wednesday, September 15, 1999 7:47 AM
>      To: gameprogrammer@gameprogrammer.com
>      Subject: dos/linux programming diffences
> 
>      I just bought linux and I wondered if there is some document
>      about differences between linux and dos programming. and
>      also any linux programming documents would be good.
>      Thanks in advance
>      --Tommi Pirinen
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