Subj : OS/2 version of timEd
To   : All
From : andrew clarke
Date : Fri Jan 12 2018 19:05:54

12 Jan 18 03:25, I wrote to Robert Wolfe:

 ac> It (and NetMgr, etc) was open sourced in November 2000 (released as
 ac> ART_SRC.ZIP), and that code contains about a year's worth of changes
 ac> from the original author since his 1995 release, including (unfinished,
 ac> IIRC) code to port it to Windows NT:

 ac> http://bbs.ozzmosis.com/art_src.zip

 ac> I don't recall if it actually builds, and at this point it still has Y2K
 ac> bugs.

Some sense of deja vu here as I may have looked at building the OS/2 version 
years ago but don't recall getting very far.

Good news: After about an hour I got the OS/2 version to build using Watcom 
10.5. OpenWatcom 1.9 should also work, but I haven't tested it.

Bad news: Building it required removing the nodelist lookup code as it depends 
on the proprietory (and evidently still closed source) Mix C Database Toolkit. 
Most of this stems from the unnecessary complexity of the old V7 nodelist 
format, although having said that, IIRC the OS/2 version of BinkleyTerm can 
work with V7 nodelists and is entirely open source. Still, whoever decided on 
that format all those years ago was a complete masochist.

Good news: It runs!

Bad news: It does indeed still have Y2K bugs which require fixing, but this 
isn't difficult provided they can all be found again.

Good news: I'm inclined to put the source on GitHub.

Bad news: The OS/2 version crashes on startup when there are more than ~127 
columns in the OS/2 Command Prompt window. It looks like it's using unsigned 
short in the code somewhere instead of unsigned int.

Bad news: I can't get the Watcom Debugger to show the source code to allow me 
to step through the code. I'm probably doing something wrong. The OpenWatcom 
build might work though.

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