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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
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Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1998 11:18:25 +0000
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Subject: Re: Fwd: Sword3 Beta6 Released !
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Alexander Bokovoy <bokovoy AT bspu DOT unibel DOT by> sent the announcement of SWORD 3 
beta 6 to the list:

> ===8<==============Original message text===============
> Hello,
> 
> I am proud to announce the release of Sword3 Beta6. There has been
> great improvements since beta5. Here are the major changes:
> 
> 1. Compilation of the text-based part of the library 'out of the box'
>    on MSDOS using DJGPP compiler. The graphical part has not been
>    ported to this plateform yet, but this is under development now
>    (many thanks to Alexander Bokovoy who did a lot for this).

The distributed file have some important problems:

1) Isn't LFN clean. I know people from UNIX enviroments hate that, but please 
try to rename the files so they can be used under DOS. You can't say DOS is 
supported if you can't even uncompress the library in DOS (you need Win9x).
2) The files are in UNIX format, ok for me, but not for command.com ;-)). The 
configure.bat doesn't work in UNIX format.

[snip]
> The library is compiled and tested regularly on those systems (please
> see the documentation for more precision about the tools and compilers
> needed) :
>     MSDOS, DJGPP (only the text-based part)

But not at least the distributed sword.zip ;-). 

>     WIN32, Visual C++ 5/6
>     UNIX, Linux, GCC 2.8.1 or EGCS 1.1
>     UNIX, Solaris, GCC 2.8.1
>     UNIX, Aix, GCC 2.8.1 (except the multithread classes)
> 
[snip]
> 
> And don't hesitate to email me any comment or suggestions (or bug
> reports...)

Here I am ;-)

I know  that distributing things for DOS and UNIX is a lot of work.

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