From: "Gregg N" 

"Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
news:42937358{at}w3.nls.net...
> Rich wrote:
>>    It sounds like you are fixated on the packaging of applications (e.g.
>> .EXE vs. .class).  I have plenty of examples of components that do not
>> bind directly to any Win32 APIs.  Your own example is easily expressed in
>> portable ANSI C
>>  system(CommandString)
>>
>
> Given people (outside of opensource projects) only ever get to see the
> compiled code then if compiled for windows then it requires windows.

Unless it doesn't. I'm using the Windows binary .sys drivers for my
wireless network card within Debian via Ndiswrapper.

Gregg

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