Subj : FileMgr
To   : Maurice Kinal
From : Mike Tripp
Date : Wed Nov 05 2003 07:09 am

Hello Maurice!

02 Nov 03 09:17, Maurice Kinal wrote to Mike Tripp:

 MK> together.  Please correct me if I am wrong as I have never been a
 MK> Windows user.  All I know about any of them is that DOS apps will run
 MK> on them and a 32-bit DOS compiler is probably the best course of
 MK> action in dealing with applications aimed in those directions.  Not
 MK> only that but it also takes care of the DOS holdouts as well.

The claim to fame of the Watcom compiler (which Scott used for Max and Squish) 
was that from the one CD you could all targets from any development environment 
(DOS, OS2, or Windows).

Targets: 16 and 32-bit DOS
         16 and 32-bit OS2
         16-bit "bound" EXE (native DOS+native OS2)
         16 or 32-bit Windows
               32-bit Novell Netware NLM

That's why his releases were always simulcast in multiple flavors, and why some 
of the source might get a bit "obtuse" in places in order to maintain an 
approach that would not fall over in one of the selected target environments.

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

Good deal.

..\\ike

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