Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 18:37:28 -0500 (EST)
From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT sympatico DOT ca>
Reply-To: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris AT sympatico DOT ca>
To: Gene Buckle <geneb AT deltasoft DOT com>
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On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Gene Buckle wrote:

> Yes.  There will be 4 available for download.  OpenDOS "Lite" which is just
> the operating system and support programs, no Personal Netware, the second
> will be a "full" version that will contain everything.  Each package has
> two distributions.  An image version that can be used with an included
> program to directly generate floppies, and a "file" version that is just an
> archive with everything in it.

Cool, I guess I'll have to download both versions.  I've got about
10000 people interested in OpenDOS here now.  They'll be coming to me
for it so I'd better have both.  :o)

> >> Right now you're going to have to suffer with about 9 different tools (5
> >> compilers, 4 assemblers) to build the whole distribution.  I'm working on
> >> cutting this number down however.
> >
> >Are you saying that you need ALL of the compilers listed in a past
> >email message to compile OpenDOS????????  If that is so, then I am
> >going to be disappointed because I only have Borland compilers,
> >assemblers, and DJGPP.
> >
> Right now, that is the case.  Watcom C is required on COMMAND.COM to get
> the size down.  I'm going to be working on getting the tool count way down.
> I don't know if I'll be able to do anything about the assemblers though
> because my assembly skills suck rocks. *grin*

I've never used Watcom personally, so I don't know how WASM's syntax
differs from TASM/MASM.  My assembly is pretty good.

> >If that is the case, I guess I won't be downloading the sources after
> >all.  :o(
> >
> 
> Sure ya can.  You can help me port to one environment. ;)

What environment will it be?  I've got BC3.1, BC4.0, and DJGPP 2.01,
TASM 3.1, TASM4.1 (Both fully MASM compatible AFAIU).  I'm willing to
help port stuff to any of those environments.


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