From: Trifle Menot 


I decided to try Borland C++ 4.5 and Turbo Assembler 5.0 for compiling
PCB.  Reason is, I thought of using the Borland C++ 4.x power pack for
building DPMI code.

But my first step was to build what exists, to see if 4.5 would work at
all.  It took a while, but I got it going.  Here's the patch:

ftp://ftp.beewyz.com/users/triflemenot/etcetera/computer/programming/project/pcboard/0.002.patch

You also need to rebuild c4base.lib.  c4lib.bat is changed by the patch,
to account for building with overlays, like PCB.  That was a bug in the
previous setup!

The size of the pcboardm executable increased by 8K.  Tested and working
here.

I used a Win98 box for this.  The DOS support is better than XP, and the
Borland tools work well.  I had some problems with Win98 until I got rid
of IE6.  I discovered that IE6 stalls and hangs the desktop on Win98, so
I uninstalled IE6, downloaded IE 5.01, and installed that.  Much better,
Win98 works fine now.  I was amazed I could still find IE 5.01, but here
it is:

http://browsers.evolt.org/?ie/win32

5.01-sp2 is the one I used.


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