Paul, at 17:09 on Jun 12 1995, you wrote to Bill Grimsley...

PE> Are you using the latest alpha?

BG> Of course.  I wouldn't have mentioned it otherwise.

PE> You picked it up from David then did you, because I didn't send it
PE> to you, I crashed it to David instead because I didn't think you
PE> were going to be around.

I didn't even know it existed until I received it as an attachment to my
normal poll last week.  And yes, you did indeed send it to me Paul.

PE> and you are not alpha-testing to help make MSGED a better product.

BG> Not necessarily.  You have changed parts of the source for each version, 
BG> and have used god-only-knows how many different compilers, so new bugs are 
BG> unlikely to be continued aross versions, wouldn't you say?

PE> Any bug that is being experienced and I have not done anything to
PE> fix is likely to remain.  I have not changed any source in response
PE> to your bug report, although I scoured it trying to find out how it
PE> could possibly happen.  As fate would have it, I did change two 
PE> things that affected the display of that line (actually one of them
PE> affected the display of all three lines), but I couldn't find any
PE> reason why the changes would do that, and probably they don't, it
PE> was some other phenomenon.  BTW, the OS/2 version has always been

It appears to be academic anyway, as it hasn't missed a beat since that
first session.  Dunno why, but rebooting OS/2 appeared to fix it.

BTW, I am now at Jack's.  There's nobody here, as Molly's funeral is
tomorrow, and he will be staying with Rebecca tonight (and although I've
been invited, I doubt very much that I shall attend).  Anyway, the point is
that I'm using the newest DOS exe right now, and it seems just fine so far.
 If nothing goes awry in the next couple of weeks, I'll be more than
satisfied with it.

PE> compiled with Watcom.  And it has always compiled on all 4 OS/2
PE> compilers I chose to support.  What I did do was change code so
PE> that the DOS version would work on both Watcom C for DOS and Turbo
PE> C for DOS instead of just Borland C for DOS.  I did attempt to 
PE> switch DOS compilers but then switched back to Borland.  Check out
PE> a message I hope to write soon to find out more!  BFN.  Paul.

Your last sentence is amazing!  I shall now bone up on my clairvoyancy
skills in anticipation of said message...

Regards, Bill
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