Subj : FileMgr
To   : Mike Tripp
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sun Nov 02 2003 09:17 am

Hey Mike!

Nov 02 10:55 03, Mike Tripp wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 MT> Depends on the xx.  95/98/ME are "DOS w/extensions",

ME is NT based is it not?  I don't believe you can lump those three together.  
Please correct me if I am wrong as I have never been a Windows user.  All I 
know about any of them is that DOS apps will run on them and a 32-bit DOS 
compiler is probably the best course of action in dealing with applications 
aimed in those directions.  Not only that but it also takes care of the DOS 
holdouts as well.


 MT> NT/W2K/XP are true 32-bit preemptive multitasking environments 
 MT> which emulate DOS rather than consume/coincide with it...just like 
 MT> OS/2.

That is my understanding and again it seems to me that a 32-bit DOS compiler 
would be the way to go if those are the intended targets.

 MT> In fact, they are merely MS's continuation of the work they 
 MT> were paid by IBM to do on OS/2 after the rift over whether the 
 MT> Windows GUI would be =the= GUI for OS/2.

Could be.  Never did care much for any of that myself.

 MT> And the key to interoperability is to think =union= of the sets and 
 MT> not =intersection=.  You don't have to lose anything "in favor of 
 MT> OS/2 and DOS compatibility"...just strive to maintain "Maximus/Squish 
 MT> compatibility".

All I did in this case was to make it multiuser by using specific squish.cfg's 
within any user account and to move the squish executable to /usr/local/bin so 
that it was on any user's path.  Works good.

Life is good,
Maurice

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