On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 2:37 PM, Tom Brennan <t...@tombrennansoftware.com> wrote:
> Windows "start" - but most likely a Windows terminal emulator would use > the ShellExecute function to start an external browser session. > > About 6 months ago I was working on compiling Info-Zip (c source code). > Wiki claims it is "The Third Most Portable Program in the World", so you > can imagine all the #ifdef's in that code. Very difficult to work with. > I wonder what the first two are. I was able to port SQLite 3 to z/OS with _NO_ source changes at all. I just had to figure out the correct ./configure and do the "make". BASH took more effort. The majority was getting the embedded GNU readline to work on z/OS properly and a few "ASCII-isms" where the code was dependent on the ASCII binary code points. I used #if statements to separate out the required z/OS changes which were Linux incompatible. But I can't say that it was really _difficult_. Other than due to my own ignorance on how BASH works internally and of advanced C constructs. > > Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >> OS X "open" >> Solaris "gnome-open" >> Linux "xdg-open" >> Cygwin "cygstart" >> Windows ? >> >> A dismaying lack of portability. One might imagina a chain of >> #ifdefs ... >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- The temperature of the aqueous content of an unremittingly ogled culinary vessel will not achieve 100 degrees on the Celsius scale. Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
