Hello Eric!

15 Apr 96 21:35, Eric Theriault wrote to Darin McBride:

 DM>> Yup, that's a SERIOUS upgrade there... :-)

 ET> Yes, I thought so.  Everyone around me thought I was totally out
 ET> of my mind for trying it out, and then even more when I loved
 ET> using it.  Now, if only they could see how great it is .

Sounds familiar.  I use Warp Connect at home - and the company I work for
writes for Windows (3.x, 95, and NT).  They all think I'm crazy.  (Hell, I
get the job done - who cares, right?)

 DM>> A few questions... your code... what was it?  DOS or GUI?
 DM>> If GUI, did it use classes (MFC or OWL)?

 ET> Currently, I building DOS applications and Win16/Win32
 ET> Applications off of Borland C++ (Doing a lot of work to get the
 ET> Windows source running isn't that important to me, since I rarely
 ET> write those types of apps).

Ok, the DOS apps will port almost directly... assuming you aren't using
interrupts right now, or accessing memory other than your own stack and
what you malloc/new.

 DM>> Most people seem to recommend IBM's Visual Age C++ 3.0.  I
 DM>> have a demo version that I have yet to try, but their
 DM>> OpenClass sounds like IBM's cross-platform answer to MFC
 DM>> (and, rumour has it that OpenClass is more OO than MFC ever
 DM>> dreamt of being).

 ET> I have asked this before to another person, however, can you give
 ET> me an approximate price?

Nope.  As I said, I have a demo, but never looked into the full thing.

 DM>> I also use the GNU port for OS/2: EMX (currently at 0.9b,
 DM>> fix #3).

 ET> The first reply I received spoke very highly of EMX, and before I
 ET> research the other compilers you recommended (Borland, Watcom,
 ET> and IBM's), I'd like to get a copy of it.  Any clue where I FTP,
 ET> FREQ, or download it from?  Thanks.

Well, you *could* FREQ it from here, but I'm going to assume that's NOT what
you want to do.  ;-)

ftp://hobbes.nmsu.edu/os2/unix/emx09b, I believe, has it.  The 'official'
place, though, is... >

ftp.uni-stuttgart.de:/pub/systems/os2/emx-09b

There will be a document there telling you what's in there, and what you
need to develop with it... and what you may not require.  :-)

Good luck!

Darin McBride

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