Mario Semo wrote in a message to Keith Thomson:

 KT> Well..  It's mostly with converting asm procedures which 
 KT> make heavy use of pointers, Segments, and offsets to OS/2 
 KT> which has no seg/offs.. :(

 MS> you simple :-) have to rewritte them to FLAT model. Maybe
 MS> the complexity of this is one of the reasons why not
 MS> everything in OS/2 is 32bit ?

There is no practical harm in porting a DOS program in assembly language to
16-bit OS/2 instead of 32-bit OS/2.  After all, portability obviously was
no concern if the program was originally written in assembly language.
 
-- Mike


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