Subj : D'Bridge
To   : Paul Quinn
From : Bj”rn Felten
Date : Tue Nov 27 2018 01:37:33

 PQ> I recall Nick saying that won't happen.  Maybe I'm wrong... probably I'm
 PQ> wrong.  Nearly exactly three years back he said he was working on v4.xx
 PQ> for a "multitude of OS platforms".  I thought he said since that he's
 PQ> somewhat disappointed that he couldn't.

   Soon after Nick took over D'Bridge I was contacted by him and asked if I could help him tidy up the code. It was written in Turbo Pascal (my speciality) and sure enough there were lots of odd solutions -- especially when it came to DOS "cheats" i.e. using undocumented MS-DOS functions.

   I cleaned up all those "cheats" (just as I did with MakeNl, BTW) plus optimized the code in many ways (using analysers and debuggers I had available) and sent the clean code back to him. After that, the code would compile with any Pascal flavour, even Free Pascal or any other Pascal compiler running on a linux box.

   Strangely enough, Nick denied that I even had been involved in the project (I still have it here somewhere) and even called me a liar when I said so. Apparently he never used my effort. So, unless I pick up the baton from where I left, I don't think we will ever see a linux (or even OS/2 :) ) port of it.  8-)

   PS: As the originator of this echo, I can assure you that I don't mind at all if you stray a wee bit off topic.


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