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There are some small differences between the PC and the unix
version and I have tried to collect them in this document.
PCs do not have the 30 second safeguard to clean up wild scripts
that the unix-systems have. This is due to the lack of good signal-handling
in DOS. Your code will be equal, but the library does not give you
the extra security.
PCs has no user-system so the getUserPath() in the Toolbox will
only return a dummy string.
PCs do not have symbolic links, so the isLink() function in the
Toolbox will return the value 0
The random functions works on 32-bit long on a PC and on
32-bit int on unix machines. Use the typedef MYINT for portable code.
If your system is not compatible with POSIX, you cannot use any of
the directory-functions in the Toolbox yet. I am working on a version
which will allow you to use direct instead of dirent on
non-POSIX systems/compilers. [Borland did surprisingly have
dirent.h but I do not know about other PC-compilers]