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>> There is a subset of the OS/2 calls that are termed Family >> APIs (FAPI) that have DOS equivalents. If you stick to using >> the FAPI routines, you can run your program through a utility >> call BIND and you will be an EXE that can run under DOS and >> OS/2. This is only available with 16 bit compilers. dn> emx provides a similar facility - 95% of its runtime library is available dn> in the extender for DOS, and it is 'bound' in a very similar way, except dn> that all the code is 32-bit. What sort of function are in the library? FAPI contains such things as the video, mouse and keyboard routines from OS/2. I think I'd prefer to just have one source file and generate two executables. Paul --- GoldED 2.40* Origin: It's life Jim, but not as we know it (3:711/934.1) SEEN-BY: 711/809 934 @PATH: 711/934 |
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