Subj : Open Watcom compiler
To   : David Noon
From : Sarah Nunez
Date : Fri Jul 19 2002 11:45 pm

 SN>> Ahhh. . .  I installed the OS/2 host stuff, not the Win16 host
 SN>> stuff. Do I need the hosting files for all platform hosts?

 DN> I don't think so. The Win16 files account for most of the IDE's
 DN> configuration, including most of the OS/2 and Win32 IDEs'
 DN> configurations. I think Watcom perceived Win16 as the lowest common
 DN> denominator, and put the bulk of the common configuration data there.

Well, none of the ide*.cfg files are in the Win16 IDE zip files.  That seems to 

be the key that I'm missing.

 DN> So, you should have a fairly substantial BINP directory, a smallish
 DN> BINW directory and little or no BINNT directory.

I have exactly two files in the BINW directory:  wcl.exe and wcl386.exe.  Those 

are the only ones that came on the zip files for OS/2 host and all targets that 

are designated for that directory.

 DN> The only IBM-burnt CDs I have to hand are for MCP2. The installation
 DN> program on those is x:\TOOLKIT\TKINSTAL.EXE, where "x" is your CD-ROM
 DN> drive.

Well, my Warp CDs just got buried the other day by a mountain of boxes.  (The 
movers delivered our furniture and other household goods from storage on 
Tuesday, and my apartment looks like a warehouse.)  I'll have to look again at 
the CDs once I unbury them.  (I can see them--I just can't get to them.)

 DN> It is getting there. Object methods are even more fragmented than
 DN> conventional (i.e. FORTRAN-style) modular programming.

Perhaps I'll have a better understanding once I get to the C++ tutorial.

 DN> Start at http://www.wxwindows.org/ and choose whichever
 DN> implementations you need: OS/2, Win32, X11 (LINUX and *BSD), MacOS,
 DN> whatever.

The only OS/2 downloads I found are via CSV, which I'm still trying to make 
sense of.  (I did download an OS/2 CSV client or whatever the term is.)  I 
emailed David Webster, who indicated that the whole shooting match (all 
platforms, perhaps?  can I even select only OS/2?) runs about 100Mb.  There's 
no way on God's green earth I can download 100Mb of stuff, especially without 
some sort of resume feature.  I have a 56Kbps modem and my ISP limits me to 
four hours per session.  There is an available CD-ROM, but from the description 

it appears that the OS/2 implementation of wxWindows is NOT on the CD-ROM.  I 
wish I could just ftp what I need and be done with it.

Sarah
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