Subj : Re: Windows vs DOS (BC++)
To   : borland.public.cpp.borlandcpp
From : "Ed Mulroy [TeamB]" <dont_email_me@bitbuc.ket>
Date : Mon Oct 20 2003 06:11 pm

EasyWin allows you to write a standard C or C++ program, the type of program
that begins at the function main, for Windows.  It is not a DOS emulator.

Pull up the help on one of the color functions, for instance: textcolor.
Click on Portability.  Note that it is not supported on on the 16 bit Win
3.1x platform.

Since 16 bit Windows is obsolete it might be a good idea for you to convert
to 32 bit Windows for your programs.  When you create a project, set the
target platform to Win32 and the target type to Console mode and you will be
able to write a text mode program starting at the function main and use the
color functions.

..  Ed

> Rob C. wrote in message
> news:3f944219@newsgroups.borland.com...
>
> I wrote an OOP  program through EasyWin (a Windows program),
> which worked fine, except I wasn’t able to use the CONIO
> functions . . . color.  This morning (feeling dangerous) I tried
> compiling this same OOP code on the DOS platform - I’ll be
> damned but it worked! Not only did the OOP stuff work (classes
> and inheritance and overriding and all that modern stuff) but I
> could then use the full gambit of CONIO functions, as well as
> blob-graphics. So I’m confused. Windows is newer (and hence I
> would assume better) than DOS, yet here, in this particular
> case, DOS is far superior to windows. So my question is, what
> can EasyWin do that DOS can’t? What about when it comes to
> compiling DLL files?

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