Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote in a message to David Hooker:

  >
  > I don't think there is really much in the way of
  > "proprietary" features in the Borland products, anymore.
  > Sure, there is BIDS and OWL... but you  get the source for both, and
  > they are based on the ASNI draft...

 JdBP>   Confusion inspired by marketing myth ?  There is no ANSI
 JdBP> draft   standard that BIDS and OWL are in any way related
 JdBP> to.  BIDS and OWL   are proprietary Borland libraries.  They
 JdBP> may be multiplatform, but   they are Borland proprietary
 JdBP> nonetheless.

Hello Jonathan, sorry to but in like this, but are you sure about the above
? AFAIK the sources for the BIDS and OWL classes do not something Borland
C++ specific. OWL is platform dependant (Windows) but from a language point
of view it is just C++ as proposed by the ANSI committee. The BIDS classes
are after all only template based containers, and I do not think they rely
on a borland specific language extension. 

The only specific things I saw were modifiers like _export, but they are
localised in a define which can be easily changed (I guess you could even
define a macro that expands that in the correct form (to nothing for
instance)). I haven't tried compiling them with a different compiler though



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