Hello Maurice!

01 Nov 03 17:54, Maurice Kinal wrote to Bob Jones:

 MK> be multiusage in favour of OS/2 and DOS compatibility.  Personally I
 MK> don't count Winxx as a seperate OS from DOS although DOS people might
 MK> argue that.

Depends on the xx.  95/98/ME are "DOS w/extensions", though each
subsequent release has done more and more to hide/blur/contradict the fact.
 NT/W2K/XP are true 32-bit preemptive multitasking environments which
emulate DOS rather than consume/coincide with it...just like OS/2.  In
fact, they are merely MS's continuation of the work they were paid by IBM
to do on OS/2 after the rift over whether the Windows GUI would be =the=
GUI for OS/2.

And the key to interoperability is to think =union= of the sets and not
=intersection=.  You don't have to lose anything "in favor of OS/2 and
DOS compatibility"...just strive to maintain "Maximus/Squish
compatibility".  That may mean the introduction of a new keyword to
introduce a new behavior that is only meaningful in one of the 4 supported
environments instead of hacking the usage of an existing one, but that
approach is how Scott's utils made it onto the 3 ports that already exist.

.\\ike

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