🚀 go-pugleaf

A few days ago I stated that my attempt to build a working Microsoft 
Windows program using TopSpeed 3.0 failed. It turns out I was missing
an additional line in the EXP file. 

I guess my mistake was to use the section on Windows programming in the
Techkit manual as the guide -- the extra line necessary was documented
in the "Windows Programming Suplement" pamphlet which I had overlooked
among the eight glossy manuals.

The simple example program made a 4k executable. Borland C made a 9k
executable. Very impressive reduction in overhead!

It should be noted that the EXP file is *almost* the same as the DEF
file needed by the Microsoft, Borland, and Zortech linkers, but requires
two additional lines. Also the  C source files are slightly different
and need some pragma statments not needed by the other C's.

I haven't tried it, but writing a Modula-2 Windows app looks easier than
using C (except for the wealth of existing C Windows examples...).

Now back to the graphics problem...


-- 
Tom Almy
toma@sail.labs.tek.com
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