Re: New Era for Unix Dead???

billy@west.co.za (Billy Wheeler) wrote: :> Billy, I think you're wrong. :You're not the only one... :-) :> My understanding is that Informix are going to ship a runtime library for :> Motif, much as they have for Character-mode terminals. :> :> Development is Win95/NT only, but Motif deployment *is* a happening thang. :Ah, so even C-compiled NE apps will run across all Unix platforms without :recompiling? Pull the other one, it's got bells on it! :-) Wrong again Billy :::---))) No, it wasn't realy you this time. Kerry's claim of a runtime library is of course only part of it. You either use the P-Code version of your program and run with a Unix runner (which includes a runtime library) or you compile your program for each Unix and then link it to this runtime library. In the case of C-compiled apps I don't know where the C-code will be generated. Perhaps on the Win95/NT machine with a setting for the target Unix machine. Alternatively there may be a C-code generator on each Unix machine. Whatever, they claimed you could develop on Win95/NT and then compile for and on a Unix machine. As I said earlier I wouldn't hold my breath waiting to see if this works well. Nils.Myklebust@idg.no NM Data AS, P.O.Box 9090 Gronland, N-0133 Oslo, Norway My opinions are those of my company The Informix FAQ is at http://www.iiug.org