Hi, Edwin.  Boy am I glad to meet you.  It sounds like you have been where
I now am and moved on and now you may just have some experience that I
badly need.  I can't respond well from this BBS.  I have another I use
where I can use my beloved off-line reader.  However, they are in the thros
of upgrading to a more up-to-date BBS software version - and there, er, are
some problems.  
 
If I can, I would like to respond to your reply via my off-line reader, so,
if all goes well, you will get more than just this reply in the near
future.  :) 
 
If I understood your msg properly, you converted a 16-bit TP apps to TP
OOPS and you used Borlands TV as per their 6.0 TP, right?  Now you are
continuing to expand your apps using BP 7.0's TV, right?  So you are stuck
like me using 16-bit apps, right? 
 
You know Edwin, I don't know how you feel but I have a BIG bone to pick
with Borland and there total lack of support for 32-bit Pascal for OS/2 - 
a bone I know exactly where I would like to shove it - if you know what 
I mean?  :)  
 
If I had my druthers, I would like to totally bypass the considerable
learning curve to converting my apps to Windows, than WindowsNT, than
Chicago - with or without TV and just simply move on to OS2 - with or
without PM - than maybe move on to WindowsNT, etc. - as required. 
 
A few people responded to me mentioning some company, their name escapes me
for the moment, that is supposedly coming out with a #{at}-bit Pascal compiler
for OS2.  Have you heard of this?  If so, do you have any details? 
 
I have asked these other people for details - contact information, etc.. I
have also asked them if they know anything about the quality of this new
product - is it professional level for instance. 
 
While I am glad to here somone is producing a 32-bit Pascal for OS/2, what
rattles around in my brain is that maybe Borland is finally going to
release a 32-bit Pascal this year and all that learning required to use a
new companies products, imcompatibility problems, maybe severe ones,
relative to Borland's Pascal gives me the dry heeves.  
 
I guess most people can't understand, unless they have walked a mile in my
shoes, on what a nightmare this situation is when you have over 50, 000
lines of Pascal, complex stuff, and about 10 years of research and
development involved, and - now what?  Convert it to C++?  Sure, right -
just what I have always wanted to do - go broke doing nonsense conversions.

 
My apps is totally DOS oriented.  I don't WANT to knock myself out
converting it to TV(OOPS) and Windows, etc..  I tend to want to take the
shortest route right now - stay procedureal, convert to Windows than
WindowsNT - just recompile my apps using BP 7.0 - and make some money. 
 
It would be nice to find out if people are going to pay for my DOS apps
first than worry about the rest.  If I make enough money, I will hire the
necessary experts to convert to the other operating systems and
structures(OOPS & C++).  What do you think?  :) 
 
Regards, -= Lou =-  
 
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