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andrew clarke | All | OS/2 version of timEd |
January 12, 2018 7:05 PM * |
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12 Jan 18 03:25, I wrote to Robert Wolfe: ac> It (and NetMgr, etc) was open sourced in November 2000 (released as ac> ART_SRC.ZIP), and that code contains about a year's worth of changes ac> from the original author since his 1995 release, including (unfinished, ac> IIRC) code to port it to Windows NT: ac> http://bbs.ozzmosis.com/art_src.zip ac> I don't recall if it actually builds, and at this point it still has Y2K ac> bugs. Some sense of deja vu here as I may have looked at building the OS/2 version years ago but don't recall getting very far. Good news: After about an hour I got the OS/2 version to build using Watcom 10.5. OpenWatcom 1.9 should also work, but I haven't tested it. Bad news: Building it required removing the nodelist lookup code as it depends on the proprietory (and evidently still closed source) Mix C Database Toolkit. Most of this stems from the unnecessary complexity of the old V7 nodelist format, although having said that, IIRC the OS/2 version of BinkleyTerm can work with V7 nodelists and is entirely open source. Still, whoever decided on that format all those years ago was a complete masochist. Good news: It runs! Bad news: It does indeed still have Y2K bugs which require fixing, but this isn't difficult provided they can all be found again. Good news: I'm inclined to put the source on GitHub. Bad news: The OS/2 version crashes on startup when there are more than ~127 columns in the OS/2 Command Prompt window. It looks like it's using unsigned short in the code somewhere instead of unsigned int. Bad news: I can't get the Watcom Debugger to show the source code to allow me to step through the code. I'm probably doing something wrong. The OpenWatcom build might work though. --- GoldED+/BSD 1.1.5-b20170303 * Origin: Blizzard of Ozz, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (3:633/267) |
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