Subj : Re: Pascal & OS2
To : Sean Dennis
From : Scott Adams
Date : Thu Oct 07 2004 11:19 pm
-=> Quoting Sean Dennis to IB Joe <=-
SD> @MSGID: 1:18/200 412525f6
SD> Hello, IB.
SD> On 19 Aug 04 at 12:06, IB Joe wrote to Sean Dennis:
IJ> All the new doors are door32.sys and things seem to be going that way.
IJ> U'd think it would be easy to get 24 lines of stinking code ported to
IJ> OS2 ... HAHAHA... NOT!! But I'll keep trying.
SD> It depends on what the code is. If it's assembler, it's not easy to
SD> port. Not all doors are DOOR32.SYS either that are being produced.
SD> It's mostly laziness because there is an excellent doorkit that can do
SD> Win32, DOS, OS/2, and Linux doors with a single source if the
SD> programmer is using Pascal. If they're using C, they're probably
SD> using OpenDoors because AFAIK, it's the only doorkit for C available.
IJ> While I'm at it... do U know someone who knows someone who can fix
IJ> this program??
SD> OS/2-wise in Pascal? I think there's people in here that can help.
SD> But remember, that was written in Delphi. There may or may not be
SD> equivalents in Virtual Pascal for Delphi statements.
SD> Later,
Correct. Delphi requires API calls that only windows does.
Its not like converting BP which can be tweaked. I would
shiver on converting delphi to os/2. Unless os/2 has the
same basic api calls it would be a nightmare. :)
If I did something I'd have to ask for my professional contract
fees that I normally require from clients :) But it
would not be a fun task at all.
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