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[Ken Moffat]

Andy wrote:

> I will check the source code out: good education and all, especially 
> since I am going to be learning C this semester at school. 


You should point out to everyone at school, including professors, that 
all programs using the GPL have the source code available. These can be 
studied, or used, as long as you credit the author. If you download 
xfce, look in any of the src directories for "COPYING", which contains 
the gpl terms.

>  I should (???) be able to take the source code to school and compile 
> it on the Windows compiler. But will it work?


Maybe at first, with C in a terminal environment, but Windows and 
Xfree86 are different, so windowing will be incompatible. It will depend 
on the libraries you are using.

Borland, eh? There is a product called Borland C++ Builder, a nice 
programming environment for window, that was ported to Linux and called 
Kylix. The newest version does C++, and I hear some programs can be 
recompiled either on Linux or Windows. But I also hear it can be quite a 
task sometimes. You can download a free version from www.borland.com.
It's called Kylix. It also does Pascal, and does it MUCH faster than 
C++. (The windows version of the pascal environment is called Delphi, 
and is also much faster than C++Builder.)



-- 
Ken