From: i1041905@ws.rz.tu-bs.de (Michael Bischoff) Subject: Re: Availability of several dos programs for *nix Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1993 14:26:22 GMT
In article <gate.4m95yB1w165w@hstorm.hacktic.nl> north@hstorm.hacktic.nl (Ad Timmering) writes:
Before I convert, I'd like to know about the availability of
some DOS programs for either *nix systems in general, and Linux in
particular.
But still, if there are multiple programs like the
ones I mentioned I'd like your personal opinion on which one is the
best.
Here is the list of programs:
- Aseasy Spreadsheet
There is a spreadsheet program, but dunno how it's called
- Derive Mathematical program
Try MACSYMA, that better! For numerics, I hear there is a MATLAB compatible
called octave (didn't test it)
To plot curves, use GNUPLOT
- DPaint II Painting/drawing program
Try idraw
- Turbo Pascal 5.5 Pascal compiler
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
No. That's not Pascal. Turbo Pascal is a language different from Pascal.
But if you want Pascal (the true Pascal), there is p2c, a pascal-to-C
converter. Use it before calling gcc, That's the same as having pc.
(Same for f77, I use f2c. The only difference is that f2c output looks
ugly (well, f77 is ugly anyway) and p2c output is pretty nice.)
- Turbo Assembler 2.01 Assembler
There is as86 and GNU as 1.38.
- Vivid 2.0 alpha 14 Raytracer
PoVRay 1.0. Well, Vivid does make some nice surfaces (has more parameters
describing them), but PoVRay knows about LOTS more object shapes.
(Try torus in Vivid!).
The reason is, that PoVray is available in source, whereas Vivid is not
(I think). SHould you have the Vivid sources, it'll be no problem
to compile them under Linux.
Michael