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To: liam <allenwc@home.com>
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Subject: Re: Macintosh OS 9.1 front end C interface 
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Comments: In-reply-to liam <allenwc@home.com>
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Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 14:52:54 -0400
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From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
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liam <allenwc@home.com> writes:
> Most of the changes involve replacing the standard Unix headers with 
> their Mac counter parts. Some functions have to be written from 
> scratch or ported from Unix, like strdup for example.

At least some of those functions already exist, see src/utils/ and
src/backend/port/.

> It is going to be a BIG job, which is why I was hoping someone else 
> had done it already.

I believe 7.1 builds out-of-the-box on OS X ... you might want to
consider just how badly you really need this for OS 9.

			regards, tom lane