Btree library

R'ykandar Korra'ti phoenix at ms.uky.edu
Thu Jun 8 13:23:30 AEST 1989


In article <883 at bimacs.BITNET> marmor at bimacs.BITNET (Eli Marmor) writes:
>The language in which BTrieve was written (8086 Assembly) doesn't prevent
>it from running on another OS, ON INTEL MACHINES of course !!!
>Novell has a version for Xenix, but ONLY for 80X86 family.
>There is no version for other machines, because Assembly is not portable.
>                                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
     If you're willing to do a little work, you could convert the machine
back into assembly, alter it a bit as needed, then cross-assemble to another
machine's machine code. (These are called cross-compilers; the utilities
that convert the machine code to assembly are called disassemblers.)
     All this assumes that you have the rights to mess with BTrieve, of
course.
                                                     - R'ykandar.

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