Re: Porting Microsoft C to Linux

Mike A. Harris (mharris@ican.net)
Tue, 22 Sep 1998 04:33:03 -0400 (EDT)

On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Colin Coe wrote:

>I am working on a driver for the ACL serial cards. The manufacturer
>(StarGate, now defunct) has supplied Microsoft C code as examples on how
>the cards are programmed. I have been working through porting this code
>to run under Linux, but there are some functions I am not sure about.
>The _bios_timeofday function, below, is causing some confusion.
>
> long timeout, currtime;
>...
> _bios_timeofday(_TIME_GETCLOCK, &timeout);
>
>I have tried replacing it with gettimeofday() but I am not sure what
>TIME_GETCLOCK does so I don't know if I am doing the right thing.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Colin
>
>PS. This code also includes conio.h and bios.h, neither of which exists
>under Linux.

conio.h is available as a lib for Linux, however I heavily
recommend porting the driver to NOT require conio.h. bios.h is
probably just required for the _bios_whatever() functions. These
can be easily ported by just looking at the MS or Borland manuals
regarding these functions.

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