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echo: jdssoft
to: John Dailey
from: Scott Adams
date: 2004-03-14 00:59:16
subject: Re: JD...

-=> Quoting John Dailey to Stephen Hurd <=-

 JD> {at}MSGID: 3:633/690 01150473
 JD> * In a message originally to John Dailey, Stephen Hurd said:
 
 SH> You know, if you port to OS/X, porting THAT to Linux would be cake...
 SH> assuming you keep an eye on the endianness and padding of saved
 SH> structs.

 JD> lol- don't tempt me :)  I use Mac OS X as my primary OS these days and
 JD> I've daydreamed of running my software on a Mac for a loooong time.

 JD> One of the huge problems with that is ASCII translation - not
 JD> something I'm looking forward to figuring out since high-ASCII across
 JD> the platforms isn't totally compatible and I like my high-ASCII :D

        I have no experience with Mac coding other than maybe an hours
        work on some old ancient mac compiler back in college.  But
        I do recall there was a character set conversion or something.

        Is it a different set or do they just not allow high ascii?


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