Subj : Open Watcom compiler
To : Sarah Nunez
From : Will Honea
Date : Wed Jul 24 2002 02:45 am
Sarah Nunez wrote to David Noon on 07/19
SN> SN>> Ahhh. . . I installed the OS/2 host stuff, not the Win16 host
SN> SN>> stuff. Do I need the hosting files for all platform hosts?
SN>
SN> DN> I don't think so. The Win16 files account for most of the IDE's
SN> DN> configuration, including most of the OS/2 and Win32 IDEs'
SN> DN> configurations. I think Watcom perceived Win16 as the lowest common
SN> DN> denominator, and put the bulk of the common configuration data there.
SN>
SN> Well, none of the ide*.cfg files are in the Win16 IDE zip files.
SN> That seems to be the key that I'm missing.
SN>
SN> DN> So, you should have a fairly substantial BINP directory, a smallish
SN> DN> BINW directory and little or no BINNT directory.
SN>
SN> I have exactly two files in the BINW directory: wcl.exe
SN> and wcl386.exe. Those are the only ones that came on the
SN> zip files for OS/2 host and all targets that are designated
SN> for that directory.
SN>
SN> DN> The only IBM-burnt CDs I have to hand are for MCP2. The installation
SN> DN> program on those is x:\TOOLKIT\TKINSTAL.EXE, where "x" is your CD-ROM
SN> DN> drive.
SN>
SN> Well, my Warp CDs just got buried the other day by a
SN> mountain of boxes. (The movers delivered our furniture and
SN> other household goods from storage on Tuesday, and my
SN> apartment looks like a warehouse.) I'll have to look again
SN> at the CDs once I unbury them. (I can see them--I just
SN> can't get to them.)
SN>
SN> DN> It is getting there. Object methods are even more fragmented than
SN> DN> conventional (i.e. FORTRAN-style) modular programming.
SN>
SN> Perhaps I'll have a better understanding once I get to the C++
SN> tutorial.
SN>
SN> DN> Start at
http://www.wxwindows.org/ and choose whichever
SN> DN> implementations you need: OS/2, Win32, X11 (LINUX and *BSD), MacOS,
SN> DN> whatever.
SN>
SN> The only OS/2 downloads I found are via CSV, which I'm still
SN> trying to make sense of. (I did download an OS/2 CSV client or
SN> whatever the term is.) I emailed David Webster, who indicated that
SN> the whole shooting match (all platforms, perhaps? can I even
SN> select only OS/2?) runs about 100Mb. There's no way on God's green
SN> earth I can download 100Mb of stuff, especially without some sort
SN> of resume feature. I have a 56Kbps modem and my ISP limits me to
SN> four hours per session. There is an available CD-ROM, but from the
SN> description it appears that the OS/2 implementation of wxWindows is
SN> NOT on the CD-ROM. I wish I could just ftp what I need and be done
SN> with it.
Sara, I assume you really mean CVS. If so, get a copy of jCVS from
http://www.jcvs.org/ and go with that. It's a Java gui implementation
of CVS that takes much of the grief out of the Unix-ese needed to run
the command line CVS. Runs with Java 1.1.8 or 1.3.x. The command line
is great once you learn it but I can never remember all the gotchas
with update/checkout/commit <g>.
If you really meant CSV, then disregard all prior babbling. I'm
catching up after 3 weeks in Abilene and getting ready for another
month, so expect an answers except for emails.
Will Honea <
[email protected]>
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