Scott: Thats not hardware independence!
Try running Solaris on an HP machine, or AIX
on a DEC Alpha.

When you "port the code over"
on UNIX, 90% of your time will be spent dealing
with hardware or system differences!


Back on Topic: :)

Hopefully the Philips Software will let you
save to disk your Pronto's settings, including
the actual IR commands you may "learn" from other
remotes.

We (and other 'net users) will be able to pass
configurations around, and just tweak them to
our own needs. You also should never have to
go back to the original remotes
(if you still have them) as the info will be backed up. We could even share the separate
"On" and "Off" codes for equipment, without
all of us having to get a "OneForAll" type remote
as well.

Or maybe Philips themselves will come up with
a way of accessing/sending these codes from within
the Proto software.