On 30 Dec 95 10:17, Paul Edwards wrote to Kieran Haughey:

Hi Paul,

PE>> Version 0.05 of the PDPCLIB has been released to the PDOMAIN TIC

KH>> I'll take a stab in the dark and saying, this is only for OS/2 compilers 
KH>> isn't it?..

PE> Yes, at the moment.

KH>> the source for it.. is there any plans on doing this for DOS?.. because I 

PE> Yes, as it turns out, there's not that much OS/2 specific stuff in
PE> there.  After I get it working for OS/2, I'll think about what
PE> changes are needed for DOS.

 kewl.. I'll be waiting for it :>

KH>> would love a faster version of fgets/fread etc.. although I suppose I 
KH>> could rip them out of the stdio.c file :) if it works that is :)

PE> I have made improvements, fixed bugs, etc since 0.05, but then I
PE> needed to revamp fwrite, and it's in a bit of a mess at the 
PE> moment.  Probably 8 hours to get fwrite working again, and another
PE> 8 hours to make the changes to fread too, and I'll have pretty
PE> well completed the thing.  Certainly to the point where I'll be 
PE> able to use it for Tobruk.  BFN.  Paul.

Yeah, and for the dos version of Tobruk you need a quick fopen/fclose
because of the need to close the msgarea after use you have tossed all the
messages into the area in question.. or else you hit the max files open
error :)..

I was going to get round to changing it, but in the end I gave up.. because
I didn't want to risk losing mail by using Tobruk after I modified it
 :)
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Happy New Year,
Kieran

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