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from: Jerry Coffin
date: 2003-08-04 20:55:56
subject: Re: MSVC / .NIX Porting

From: jcoffin{at}taeus.com
To: c_echo{at}yahoogroups.com

At 08:21 PM 8/4/2003 -0600, you wrote:

>At 12:52 AM 8/3/2003 +0100, you wrote:
>
>>  * Author: Robert Todd
>>
>>Hi folks!  Was wondering if MSVC would support the porting of *NIX based
>>C++ code over to Win32?
>
>Yes and no.  MSVC out of the box supports _some_ POSIX-like functions (e.g
>the whole open/creat/lread/lwrite family) but nowhere close to all of them
>(e.g. fork is missing).

Oops -- that should (of course) be open/read/write/lseek, not lread or
lwrite (which are purely MS inventions left over from Win16).
         Later,
         Jerry.

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