Subj : DOS version
To   : Marty Blankenship
From : Bob Jones
Date : Mon Sep 29 2003 10:55 pm

 MB> When do you think we may see a new DOS version of 
 MB> squish? Just wondering since
 MB> I am still useing the latest released version 1.11. I use Seal along with 
 MB> squish to help me out with my downlinks.

Not for a long time, unless you are willing to help with development.  At this 
point in time the only active developers for Maximus / Squish are compiling in 
a Unix / Linux environment.  Personally, I would also like to eventually get 
the code compiling again under OS/2, which, if I successed with using Open 
Watcom, might allow DOS and Win32 compiles to occure....  But I may end up 
using the EMX port of GCC for OS/2....  which doesn't help DOS users....

To date, I believe there is only one or two fixes we have made to squish / Unix 
/ Linux that could be rolled back to the DOS / Win32 / OS/2 version, but are 
rather minor.  [The one fix that comes to mind is the fix for the format of one 
of the kludge lines squish generates to use the current standard.]  

While we have been trying to keep the code so that it can be re-compiled for 
DOS / Win32 / OS/2 platforms, none of the current development team has Scott's 
development environment re-created, so we have yet to be able to recompile the 
code for the DOS / Win32 / OS/2 platforms.  

Can you help in this area?

Thanks.

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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