Re: OS/400 support? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Gavin Sherry
Subject Re: OS/400 support?
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Msg-id Pine.LNX.4.21.0301071252560.10806-100000@linuxworld.com.au
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In response to Re: OS/400 support?  (Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>)
Responses Re: OS/400 support?  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Dan Langille wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Jan 2003, Tom Lane wrote:
> 
> > Justin Clift <justin@postgresql.org> writes:
> > > Info:
> > > http://search400.techtarget.com/sDefinition/0,,sid3_gci331973,00.html
> >
> > That page quoth
> >
> > OS/400 and its related software has added support for:
> >
> >      The Portable Application Solutions Environment (PASE), which
> >      supports a subset of the AIX environment so that Unix applications can
> >      be ported and run on the AS/400
> >
> > This suggests that our AIX port might work with little or no tweaking.
> > Or perhaps not; "subset" could cover a multitude of sins.  But it'd be
> > worth trying.
> 
> That would be very wild if we could do that.  Who volunteered? ;)

It might be pretty simple given PASE support and a hardware/OS manual. The
problem is that first assumption: how many OS/400 users have PASE
implemented? I'd say, not many.

Gavin



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