> It's a Forth variant that does typing, and lots of things that normal forth can't do congratulations ! like a pop song you cannot get out your head, you hav

> It's a Forth variant that does typing, and lots of things that normal forth can't do congratulations ! like a pop song you cannot get out your head, you have found and bonded with something rare, special and worthy.. but like an old, old automobile from your Uncle's backyard, it might take endless efforts for modest (or worse) rewards > make install and it works perfectly... under Debian 3 you have your first target.. make a VirtualBox VM with Debian 3, install your target software, and guard it well !! backups, small environment improvements.. connection to the Internet even?! small steps are called for.. > Anything newer, even with -std=c99, and it dies a horrible death standard C99 is not a terrible thing.. the libraries that are linked are the big weakness there, but despite lots of complaining from modern coders, the libraries actually do work for you know, your own use.. thats what you are building, something for one person to use, you! > I, a non-C programmer, who is willing to dump tons of time into it, migrate this code into the year 2022 you already know the answer to this.. there is no way to port C code to standard C99 without knowing C. So, you have to cooperate with others somehow. This post is not a bad start, but if you are looking for volunteers, there has to be benefit for them. A random other person who also finds this obsessively compelling.. probably not a realistic outcome, even with the massive audience at YNews. There are legions of middle-aged guys who know C at the C99 level, but for whatever reason are not professionally programming right now. This might be a local search, in "meat space" or, alternatively worded invites, in other forums or mailing lists. Good luck!