On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 09:26:56AM -0500, Hanasaki JiJi wrote: | Your best bet, other than buying a Posix subsystem for Win, is to hope | it is written a portable, or relatively so, language: Java comes to mind | followed by Perl and Python.
That's only part of it. You can write non-portable code in any of those languages. Particularly if the code assumes certains files exist or if they make use of external commands. Even things like endian-ness can be relevent when writing java code. -D