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to: Tom Almy
from: Mike Bilow
date: 1997-02-06 00:45:00
subject: Visual C++ Problem?

Tom Almy wrote in a message to Jonathan de Boyne Pollard:

 JdBP> DPMI has been improved in OS/2 Warp 4.  Borland C++ for DOS tools
 JdBP> appear to work "out of the box" on OS/2 Warp 4, no
longer requiring
 JdBP> modifications to DPMI and including the DOS-extended 32-bit tools.

 TA> Well, that certainly would be an improvement! I haven't
 TA> upgraded to Warp 4 because I saw nothing in it that I could
 TA> benefit from. This would be nice, but of course I still
 TA> couldn't run Microsoft VC++ or the latest Win32 tools from
 TA> Borland.

A lot of Win32s stuff from Microsoft suddenly starts working in Warp 4,
such as FoxPro for Windows.  There is no "true Win32," since even
Windows 95 and Windows NT have different APIs.  Sometimes it is worth a try
on OS/2.
 
-- Mike


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