Equivalent of Dos 'copy' in C ?

brewbuck · 11-04-2009, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by MisterIO

Again, this is completely irrelevant to the previous discussion and I never said that. It just seems to me that you're unable to admit that you were wrong.

Wikipedia:

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Portability is the software codebase feature to be able to reuse the existing code instead of creating new code when moving software from an environment to another.

Suppose my program relies on glib to implement file copies. I want to compile my code to run on FooBox, a platform glib does not support. It seems I'll need to write some new code, rather than use the code I already have. Ergo, non-portable.

I'm not saying that glib (or something else) isn't a good solution, just that introducing a third party library doesn't magically make code portable.

MisterIO · 11-04-2009, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by brewbuck

Wikipedia:
Suppose my program relies on glib to implement file copies. I want to compile my code to run on FooBox, a platform glib does not support. It seems I'll need to write some new code, rather than use the code I already have. Ergo, non-portable.

I'm not saying that glib (or something else) isn't a good solution, just that introducing a third party library doesn't magically make code portable.

You're still wrong. The fact that architecture x may not be available among the architectures supported just means that the library hasn't been ported to that architecture. Again, that can be said for the c standard library too.
Anyway, if you want to create your own definition of portability, you can do it. It's just that it's different from that of the rest of the world of programmers.

**sean** · 11-04-2009, 10:10 PM

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