SUN/111.2

Starlink Project
Starlink User Note 111.2

D L Terrett
P M Allan

1 February 1993


SPT — Software Porting Tools



Abstract

SPT is an inhomogeneous set of software tools designed to assist in the conversion of code from one operating system to another (principally from VMS to UNIX and vice-versa, and between different flavours of UNIX).

Contents

1 Introduction
2 Running the Tools
 2.1 On UNIX
 2.2 On VMS
3 FORCONV
4 Softlink
 4.1 Logical names and soft links
 4.2 Overview of softlink
 4.3 Details
 4.4 Defining Standard Soft Links