Subj : Open Watcom announcement
To   : Rich Wonneberger
From : David Noon
Date : Thu Jun 27 2002 08:10 pm

Hi Rich,

Replying to a message of Rich Wonneberger to David Noon:

 RW> *** Quoting David Noon to Sarah Nunez dated 06-11-02 ***
 >> The missing OS/2 stuff (the OS/2 Develoepr's Toolkit) is on the install
 >> media for Warp 4, WSeB, MCP, MCP2, ACP, ACP2 and eCS. It is more 
 >> up-to-date than that supplied on the Watcom install CDs of old. If you 

 RW> A newer Watcom compiler is on one of the eCS CDs??

No, a newer OS/2 DTK is on CD #2 of the eCS install media. [I.e. it is newer 
than the one supplied on the Watcom install CD.]

The [retail] Watcom compiler arrives with the OS/2 DTK 2.1, which dates from 
1993. In contrast, eCS arrives with OS/2 DTK 4.52, which dates from 1999 and 
targets the kernels, shells and file systems supplied with ACP and MCP.

There are some mind-numbing bugs in the 4.52 DTK, but the Warpzilla team are 
intent on getting them fixed. Compiling Warpzilla from source is actually 
impossible with the 4.52 DTK, and so it was compiled using the 4.51 DTK (as 
supplied with WSeB).

Regards

Dave
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