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Thanks very much for your kind reply.> As I mentioned earlier there are many details involved in such a port
> and we won't be able to help very much - if you want to try this you will
> have to figure out most of it on your own. I will make a few comments to
> help get you started but I can't answer in detail. Experience with other
> outside porting attempts shows we can easily spend more time answering
> email than it would take for us to do the port ourselves, and what we end
> up does not solve the problem for the general community.I hope not to annoy you. I think that this will be the last request of help.> There has been a lot of interest recently in IRAF running on the 486 and I
> think we here at NOAO will do such a port within the next year.
> I agree that Linux looks quite interesting, we will be taking a look at this
> too. There is also BSD386.This mean that there is a probability of a port also on these version of Unix?
I'm going to start the port only after the first days of July (after the
Compiler and Operating System's examination). If there is a probability of a
your port on BSD386 or Linux, please tell me before this date!> There are records of many actual real-world ports in the directory
> iraf/doc/ports. See also iraf.noao.edu:pub/aux_port.doc, which is a log
> of the Mac A/UX port.I have found aux_port.doc but not iraf/doc/ports (the directory iraf/docs
have only the focas subdir).> "DEC 3100" sounds like a DECstation 3100 - this runs Ultrix, not VMS.
> If it is something else running VMS that is fine too.In fact it was a Microvax 3100 with VMS 5.5 and 16Mb RAM.I'm sorry but usually my English is very scarce. I hope to be comprehensible. Alessandro Freda