Subj : FileMgr
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Bob Jones
Date : Sun Nov 02 2003 09:25 pm

 BJ> Serial port communication has always been an issue when you get down 
 BJ> to lower level routines and are concerned about real-time 
 BJ> interaction, such as Max does....

 MK> Ah!  I guess that doesn't do much for nonserial based 
 MK> communications unless Max decides to support IP based 
 MK> instead.  Would be much easier to port if the 
 MK> communications interface was completely ignored.

I believe Wes was successful in getting the inital TCP/IP support in to the 
Maximus Linux port due to how well the "serial" API was isolated by Scott, and 
therefore replaceable with other connection means.....

 BJ> Please note that I said OS/2 and Win32.  I did not say DOS.

 MK> I know.  I said DOS.  I don't believe that Win32 is an 
 MK> OS onto itself.  It is an interface on top of DOS.

I will agree to disagree.

What was the last version of Windows that you used.  I'll agree with you on 
older versions of Windows (such as Windows 3.1 running on top of DOS).  Newer 
stuff I will disagree with.  Newer windows have premptive multi-tasking that 
DOS never had, and the newest versions support some concurrent multi-user 
items.  And there is some stuff that the old DOS routines would no longer work 
for.  Any way....

 BJ> But we were talking 
 BJ> FileMgr, not maximus on this discussion, so, the file manager (from 
 BJ> my perspective) is a Sysop utility that doesn't need multi-user 
 BJ> support....

 MK> Okay.

 MK>> Sort of.  gcc claims no compatibility to OS/2 but does 
 MK>> recommend emx as a viable alternative.

 BJ> I'd have to dig to find that technicallity....

 MK> It is in the GCC documentation on the homepage under 
 MK> ports.  They claim that they don't support OS/2 
 MK> directly.

The main GCC folks probably don't support directly, but I beileve there is a 
group using OS/2 supporting that port, and I believe OS/2 items have been put 
into the main code tree....  As such, I would expect a cross-compile from Linux 
or Unix to OS/2 would be possible, but I haven't tried to set such a 
development environment up....

 ...
 MK> Anyhow I found two Pascal compilers for OS/2 and DOS.  
 MK> I believe that should help with those looking to 
 MK> compile FileMgr on those platforms.

Good.  If I remember correctly, you mentioned Free Pascal for OS/2, which I 
believe also is available / runs under Linux and probably also other flavors of 
*nix.

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41



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