Return-Path: Received: from [206.46.170.106] (HELO out006.verizon.net) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.3c1) with ESMTP id 740414 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:33:52 -0500 Received: from verizon.net ([4.12.145.173]) by out006.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.06.06 201-253-122-130-106-20030910) with ESMTP id <20050215193347.NDPC28674.out006.verizon.net@verizon.net> for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:33:47 -0600 Message-ID: <42124E87.3040703@verizon.net> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 14:33:27 -0500 From: Finn Lassen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax; PROMO) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rotary motors in aircraft Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] FJO wideband O2, tree trimmers, and ignorant software question References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------050200090009050407000207" X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out006.verizon.net from [4.12.145.173] at Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:33:46 -0600 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------050200090009050407000207 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You definitely need the source code to do any porting from one platform to another. And if it's a commercial (non-shareware or open-source) product, I very much doubt you can get hold of the source code. Well, maybe if you signed a non-disclosure agreement, and made a deal with them to do the porting for them... Finn Russell Duffy wrote: > I've heard the term "ported" in regards to making software work with > other platforms, but I don't quite know what this entails. Is it > possible for the average software geek to convert this software for > use with the Pocket PC, or is it something that only the original > programmers could do? I also suspect that it might be illegal to do > this even if you can, unless they gave permission for it. It would be > cool to be able to data log MAP, RPM, and O2 in flight, but the only > way I have to capture the data is the Ipaq. > > Cheers, > Rusty (engine will be re-installed this weekend) --------------050200090009050407000207 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You definitely need the source code to do any porting from one platform to another.

And if it's a commercial (non-shareware or open-source) product, I very much doubt you can get hold of the source code. Well, maybe if you signed a non-disclosure agreement, and made a deal with them to do the porting for them...

Finn

Russell Duffy wrote:

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I've heard the term "ported" in regards to making software work with other platforms, but I don't quite know what this entails. Is it possible for the average software geek to convert this software for use with the Pocket PC, or is it something that only the original programmers could do? I also suspect that it might be illegal to do this even if you can, unless they gave permission for it. It would be cool to be able to data log MAP, RPM, and O2 in flight, but the only way I have to capture the data is the Ipaq.

Cheers,

Rusty (engine will be re-installed this weekend)

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