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echo: maximus
to: MICHAEL EPLER
from: PHIL ROBERTS
date: 1998-03-27 04:07:00
subject: Max/NT - Dos Doors ?

-=[ Quoting Michael Epler to Phil Roberts ]=-
 PR> Wildcat! is also able to handle running under NT with
 PR> a little utility known
 PR> as Binkshim.  I don't know if Binkshim will do
 PR> anything for Max though.  I'm
 PR> assuming that they're running a 32-bit Bink into a 16-
 PR> bit (or DOS) Wildcat!
 ME> After more research about BINKSHIM, all it does is allow WC folks to
 ME> use BINKLEY as their mailer rather than buy Platnum Xpress from
 ME> Santronics. Seems the way the newer WC stuff is coded it can not
 ME> easily be adapted/grafted into other systems, this especially includes
 ME> the 32 bit doors. However, if there was a decompiler for the WC code,
 ME> or a translator that could convert the calls to MEX, they would have
 ME> potential.
I was actually thinking more along the line of the problem people have 
unning
DOS doors.  If there were one 32-bit door for Maximus which would run the
DOS doors, this problem would be largely solved without any rewrites to Max.
                                Phil
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