Subj : Open Watcom compiler
To   : Sarah Nunez
From : Jonathan de Boyne Pollard
Date : Tue Jun 25 2002 11:35 pm

SN> 2.  I have three programs (all quite similar to one another) that send
SN> output to the printer (stdprn).

Your programs are written to assume something to be true that is only in fact
true on the MS/PC/DR-DOS operating systems.  Your programs, as they stand at
any rate, have thus locked themselves into MS/PC/DR-DOS.

Is it your intention to build DOS programs ?  I suspect that it is not.  Only
when the target operating system is MS/PC/DR-DOS is it meaningful to make use
of the macros "stdaux" and "stdprn" (analogous to the standard "stdin",
"stdout", and "stderr" macros) in a program.  If you are intending to create
OS/2 programs, then your applications need to be rewritten to stop assuming
something that isn't actually true on OS/2.

SN> All three programs compile flawlessly under Turbo-C 2.0, [...]

That's because Turbo C targets the DOS operating system and your programs are
written for DOS.

� JdeBP �

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