In article <[log in to unmask]>, [log in to unmask] says... > Peter asks... > "Why is suprtool only ported to HPUX? Once you've gone to UNIX it's > fairly trivial to go to other UNIX platforms and Windows isn't too hard." > > IIRC Supertool is written to take advantage of the PR-RISC chip and won't run on other chips. Sounds like it's been written in assembler rather than the more usual C that you'd normally use. That'd explain why it hasn't been ported but it's an odd decision since it's main purpose is to retrieve data rather than any CPU intensive operations. -- http://www.beluga.freeserve.co.uk * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *