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JW> DL>Jon Wright from Guidelines Support stated that Guidelines 2.1A is not
> >compatible with BCOS/2 1.5, only 1.01. This is also true of Watcom 10.0;
> >Because of name mangling, it only works with Watcom 9.5.
JW> DL>Apparently Watcom and Borland changed the way they mangle names in C++ f
> >Watcom 10.0, BC 4.0, and BCOS/2 1.5.
JW> MD> Well, did Jon say anything about a quick fix? He has failed to
> MD> respond to my questions concerning this. If it is a simple rebuild of
> MD> the .LIB files, let us know... Why would Borland do this and lose the
> MD> backward compatibility?
JW> If true, then no old C++ LIBRARIES (Zinc, Zapp, etc.) would work
> with the new BCOS/2 1.5. Rule one always have complete source
> for every library that you use or do not use it. Now you know
why .
Well, they don't sell their source code, and I can understand why.
You'd have to know what Guidelines is (I'm not saying you don't) to
really understand, it would be partially counter-productive if they give
us the source code.
Michael Douglass
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