[10] in DCNS Development
Successful port of TechInfo client...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim McGovern)
Mon Apr 29 17:59:12 1991
Date: Mon, 29 Apr 91 17:57:24
From: tjm@eagle.mit.edu (Tim McGovern)
To: developers@MIT.EDU
Cc: cec@MIT.EDU
Fellow developers...
I would like to report an important milestone for our DOS efforts here in E32.
Chee Chew has successfully ported the TechInfo client software (originally
developed for BSD) to DOS using most of the original code, layered on FTP
Software's Kit, and incorporating his own mods to handle the curses-based stuff
of the original. This is NOT an MS-Windows based port, given the problems we've
had making FTP and Windows cooperate. This is only a first development version,
and lots of little things need to be straightened up, and a production release
is not even being discussed yet--heck, even an alpha version is some time way.
Still and all, a JOB WELL DONE!!!
When we deploy a DOS client (and package additional Unix clients), it should
help to reduce the load on the "techinfo" host machine that supports telnet
connections for the community today.
Another of the benefits we expect to achieve is to better understand how we
should be constructing software to allow us to port code easier/quicker/etc.
between Unix/Mac/DOS. Among other things, we'd like to understand (and this is
only a dream right now) what we will need to do to move the Mac-based Provider
functions to the DOS world in order to bring a whole new community into the
picture as information providers.
Finally, as we wrap up this semester's efforts, we will be moving the results of
the DOS work that Chee's has been leading back into the main source tree that
Scott has been maintaining on the Athena side.
More news when it happens...
Tim
