Subj : The Patriquin Utilities - conversion
To   : Marc Lewis
From : Bob Jones
Date : Thu Jan 23 2003 02:49 pm

 ML> For years I had run my BBS under DOS/DESQview, depending heavily on some 
 ML> utilities like Norm Patriquin's PCopy and PDelete (sort 
 ML> of like a SysOp's "Swiss Army knife").  After 
 ML> converting to OS/2-CP2 I kept some of my main batch 
 ML> files (after some adjustments) to run in VDMs.  It has 
 ML> recently come to mind that I actually have the full 
 ML> source code for all the Patriquin utilities.  I was 
 ML> wondering if it would be practical to consider doing a 
 ML> recompilation to run as a native 16bit OS/2 
 ML> application?  I am not a programmer, but I think these 
 ML> are written in C or C++.

If you have C source code, you might want to try installing the Open Watcom 
1.0beta  compiler and see if things will just compile for you....  If so, you 
may have OS/2 native versions, or possibly even dual mode OS/2 and DOS 
versions, depending on how you set things up....

Take care.....

Bob Jones, 1:343/41


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