-=> Quoting Mark Hoover to Scott Adams <=-

 SA>     As i am getting into more windows programming lately I'm finding
 SA>     porting to other OSes isn't so easy as some might think.  Not
 SA>     without some work like going to  compilers than can do it.
 SA>     Allfix will probably go down for me as one of the best
 SA>     softwares. Since ts been stable and such. 

 MH> It depends on whether or not you design the software from the
 MH> beginning  to be cross platform or not.  It also means working within
 MH> certain  constraints.  For example, using only ANSI C/C++ code. 
 MH> Obviously non- ANSI C/C++ functions are not going to be portable.  It
 MH> also means  isolating your core functional code from code that handles
 MH> stuff such as  the user interface.

 MH> Not hard to do so much when you're starting out, but much harder to do
 MH> with an existing project...

     Yep.  Course I know this very well.  But that's one nice thing
     about some ActivX/Com stuff these days.  They are being more
     and more portable even to other OSes.  

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