Hey Bob!

Oct 09 15:32 03, Bob Jones wrote to Maurice Kinal:

 BJ> As I understand it, commercial Watcom C is no longer produced (but 
 BJ> you may be able to still find a copy, possibly second hand).  There 
 BJ> is now Open Watcom, and that is freely available. 

I never heard that.  I obviously don't get around.

 BJ> Yes.  GCC has been ported for a long time to OS/2 (as EMX), and there 
 BJ> is also a full 32 bit port of GCC for Win32 environments.

That's what I thought.  I think I saw binary dists on a site somewhere.
 
 BJ> DJGPP still exists....

That one I know.  I used it on DOS many years ago to test functions at home
I was writing for gcc on Solaris.  The best way to do that at the time all
things considered.  Also wrote some serial communications stuff for ye old
2400 baud modem.  Them were the days.  :-)

 BJ> Open Watcom is available for Windows and OS/2 plataforms.  I had 
 BJ> originally tried to get the GNU licensed Maximus code to compile with 
 BJ> a beta release of Open Watcom under OS/2, but had trouble in using 
 BJ> the make subsystem (another free package) that Scott had used.....

Hm.  Portability issues.  I think I'll stick with gcc.

Life is good,
Maurice

--- Msged/LNX 6.1.1