So to david begley do I speak these words:


Wednesday October 13 1993 10:25, david begley wrote to Steven Pasztor:


 SP>> I assume though, that you still require two seperate programs?
 db> You wanted the easiest solution, right?  :-)  As David Nugent pointed out,
 db> in order the for executable to be effectively one program and *still* work
 db> under both environments requires too much work (unless your intended
 db> audience is a lucrative one).

Yeah... I've gathered that...


 SP>> The idea was to share as much code as possible.
 db> You can still do that at the source code level (abstracting all the user
 db> interface things away from the rest of the application), but at the
 db> execution level things get a little tougher.  Perhaps you could experiment
 db> with using the "DOS App" and "Windows App"
areas to hold user interface
 db> code, whilst the rest of the application's "grunt" comes
from an external
 db> .DLL and/or overlay file that could be shared between the two .. always
 db> something to experiement with.. .  .

Interesting... Well, I prefer DOS anyway, so I think I'll leave windoze
alone this time... I may play around with some of the ideas sometime, but
for now, I think I'll stick to plain dos... :-)


nevets


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