🚀 go-pugleaf

John Reynolds (stimpy@nmt.edu) wrote:
: >Will BC++ OS/2 support Windows & DOS application Programming
: >or will I have to buy BC++ 3.1 ?
: >
: >Will Borland port the Application FrameWorks over to OS/2 PM?
: >
: >It would be real nice to program for windoze using AF
: >and just change a library or header file and compile for OS/2 PM
: >Dreaming right?  I thought so :)
: 
: True, rumor is that this won't happen in the first release of BCC++4os2,
: because they 'want to get the OS/2 part right first.' But, I've also
: heard they they are working on the class structures to do such a thing.
: Write a windows app using their class libraries, and 'instantly' port
: it over to PM. Now that would be sweet!

Seems to me that it would be even better to be able to write a PM app and
then flick the compiler switch to generate Win apps.  I know that I would
prefer it for the debugging, if nothing else.

(of course if you tried to do anything that Microsoft considers exotic, like
threads, you'd be stuck...)

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