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  • The Patriquin Utilities - conversion

    From Marc Lewis@1:396/45 to All on Wed Jan 22 07:06:57 2003
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    * Originally from Marc Lewis (1:396/45) to All.
    * Original dated: Wed Jan 22, 07:05

    Hello all.

    For years I had run my BBS under DOS/DESQview, depending heavily on some utilities like Norm Patriquin's PCopy and PDelete (sort of like a SysOp's "Swiss Army knife"). After converting to OS/2-CP2 I kept some of my main batch
    files (after some adjustments) to run in VDMs. It has recently come to mind that I actually have the full source code for all the Patriquin utilities. I was wondering if it would be practical to consider doing a recompilation to run
    as a native 16bit OS/2 application? I am not a programmer, but I think these are written in C or C++.

    Opinions? Options?

    Best regards,
    Marc

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  • From Sarah Nunez@1:130/604 to Marc Lewis on Wed Jan 22 12:08:18 2003
    22 Jan 03 07:06, Marc Lewis wrote to All:

    For years I had run my BBS under DOS/DESQview, depending heavily on
    some utilities like Norm Patriquin's PCopy and PDelete (sort of like a SysOp's "Swiss Army knife"). After converting to OS/2-CP2 I kept some
    of my main batch files (after some adjustments) to run in VDMs. It
    has recently come to mind that I actually have the full source code
    for all the Patriquin utilities. I was wondering if it would be
    practical to consider doing a recompilation to run as a native 16bit
    OS/2 application?

    Before you go through the trouble, you might want to check out Jonathan deBoyne
    Pollard's Command Line Utilities set. The latest release should be available on Hobbes.

    Sarah
    trinityoaks@cfaith.com

    ... All who love liberty are enemies of the state.
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  • From andrew clarke@3:633/267.1 to Marc Lewis on Thu Jan 23 15:45:56 2003
    Wed 2003-01-22 07:06, Marc Lewis (1:396/45) wrote to All:

    It has recently come to mind that I actually have the full source
    code for all the Patriquin utilities. I was wondering if it would
    be practical to consider doing a recompilation to run as a native
    16bit OS/2 application? I am not a programmer, but I think these
    are written in C or C++.

    A 32-bit OS/2 application would make more sense. 16-bit OS/2 compilers are harder to find, and generally more difficult to write code for.

    Hard to say whether it's practical or not to port it until the source code has been looked at, to see how much of it needs to be rewritten.

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  • From Bob Jones@1:343/41 to Marc Lewis on Thu Jan 23 14:49:22 2003
    For years I had run my BBS under DOS/DESQview, depending heavily on some utilities like Norm Patriquin's PCopy and PDelete (sort
    of like a SysOp's "Swiss Army knife"). After
    converting to OS/2-CP2 I kept some of my main batch
    files (after some adjustments) to run in VDMs. It has
    recently come to mind that I actually have the full
    source code for all the Patriquin utilities. I was
    wondering if it would be practical to consider doing a
    recompilation to run as a native 16bit OS/2
    application? I am not a programmer, but I think these
    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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