VB> 1) If I want to make 16 bit Windows 3.1 type executables -and- Windows
 VB> 95 ones, do I need either FiveWin or Clip4Win for the first ones and
 VB> XBase++ for the second? Or will just XBase++ do?
xbase++ is win32 only, so for 16bit windows you have to use clip4win or 
fivewin.
 VB> 2) Have you tried XBase++? I'd like to hear about your experience with
 VB> it, if you have.
xbase++ is not ready yet. i got second release of "early experience version" 
last week and it is much than number but, there are still a lot of problems 
left. gui-painter works _very_ slow and generates buggy code sometimes, large 
programs (source > 1MB) break after startup (same in os/2-version). but i 
think it will get better in the next months, and short applications run quite 
well. i use os/2-version of gui-painter, it is not fully compatible with 
win32-version but for my little tricks its ok. biggest ported piece of code 
(no gui) has about 600kB and works ok, even in a network concurrently with 
the dos-version.
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