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echo: artware
to: All
from: andrew clarke
date: 2018-01-17 13:38:44
subject: OS/2 version of timEd

17 Jan 18 13:14, I wrote to all:

 ac> Over the years I'd completely forgotten what an absolutely mess some of
 ac> the code was. Especially timEd.

 ac> Anyway, at this point it's possible for anyone to rebuild NetMgr & timEd
 ac> for OS/2 from the source now on GitHub using OpenWatcom 1.9.

 ac> Windows versions of NetMgr and timEd can also be built, but timEd in
 ac> Windows is completely unusable due to bugs in Gerard van Essen's
 ac> incomplete code that I'm not able to easily fix.

 ac> Also beware the Y2K bugs haven't been patched on the source on GitHub.

I don't know if there was ever an announcement made in this echo when
Gerard ceased development on timEd & NetMgr, but I sort of get the
impression he threw his hands in the air once he realised he was in over
his head with porting timEd to Windows. (Apologies for the mixed
metaphors.)

I may have said this years ago, but in hindsight it seems irresponsible
that he never released Y2K-patched versions of his software, at the very
least for the people that actually paid money for it.

It took Tobias Ernst and Wilfried Brinkmann to come up with binary patches,
with the last release (ARTFIX07.ZIP, to my knowledge) in October 1999.
Gerard would not release all the source code until a year later.

End rant :)

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