Subj : The Patriquin Utilities - conversion
To : Marc Lewis
From : Bob Jones
Date : Thu Jan 23 2003 02:49 pm
ML> For years I had run my BBS under DOS/DESQview, depending heavily on some
ML> utilities like Norm Patriquin's PCopy and PDelete (sort
ML> of like a SysOp's "Swiss Army knife"). After
ML> converting to OS/2-CP2 I kept some of my main batch
ML> files (after some adjustments) to run in VDMs. It has
ML> recently come to mind that I actually have the full
ML> source code for all the Patriquin utilities. I was
ML> wondering if it would be practical to consider doing a
ML> recompilation to run as a native 16bit OS/2
ML> application? I am not a programmer, but I think these
ML> are written in C or C++.
If you have C source code, you might want to try installing the Open Watcom
1.0beta compiler and see if things will just compile for you.... If so, you
may have OS/2 native versions, or possibly even dual mode OS/2 and DOS
versions, depending on how you set things up....
Take care.....
Bob Jones, 1:343/41
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