On Fri, Nov 12, 1999 at 06:49:53AM -0600, Howard Shaw wrote:
> Agreed, but incidentally, the current versions of Pyrite, to the best of my
> knowledge, no longer require extension modules. The auther originally used
> the pilot-link packages for the sync, but has since rewritten the process in
> pure Python. So if Python could be constrained to run on the DOS platform,
> Pyrite should work unchanged, or mostly unchanged.
*bzzt* The current version, 0.7.8, still requires an extension module,
which appears to be a simple wrapper around libpisock3. It is probably
possible to reimplement libpisock in pure Python on Unix, due to the
everything's-a-file system, but I'm not sure if open('com1') on DOS can
do the same.
-Ben
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