Well, I know the problem of file extensions.
A DOS port means that it is necessary to make new conventions for
extension for it.
However: DJGPP allows to access all the memory fisically avaiable (up
to 2GB !) even if under DOS
and, I think that memory avaiable would be the maior limitation on a
DOS system, not file extension.
Pheraps we mean two different thing for DOS port:
Jean means a DOS port,
I mean 'porting the tools avaiable in ADE to DOS program'
For me, new to numerical computations, for example, the difficult to write
a program for various PCA is in the avaiability of numerical routines.
I'm trying with the meschach library, but, of course, code already written
for that particular pourpose (e.g.: ADE sources) could be more
appropriate.
I really don't pretend to port ADE on DOS, of course...
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Federico Spinazzi
email: federico@syspr03.disat.unimi.it
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On Wed, 7 Jan 1998, Jean Thioulouse wrote:
> Federico Spinazzi <federico@SysPr03.disat.unimi.it> writes :
> >If I think that sources of ADE are avaiable, I think that, for example, it
> >could be good to port it on DOS (at least computational modules)...
>
> Unfortunately, ADE-4 is not compatible with DOS or Windows 3. I worked on
> this problem a while ago, but the limitation of filenames to 8+3 characters
> is very difficult to get round. ADE-4 makes heavy use of filename extensions
> and this is completely incompatible with DOS.
>
> Jean
>
>
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