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In article <820440826snz@keris.demon.co.uk>,
    Chris Croughton <chris@keris.demon.co.uk> wrote ...

> In article <820365420snz@wash.demon.co.uk>
>            john@wash.demon.co.uk "John Washington" writes:
> 
[...]
> >Except for the 2.17 version that Gordon Beck did, with
> >prototypes.  Prototypes, way to go!  [rest of article drowned
> >by crescendo of whole stadium chanting "Pro- to- types, pro- to- types..."]
> 
> :-)  I haven't seen that yet - I remember seeing someone saying they
> were going to do it, but not the result.  Is that based on 2.16d (the
> Ascend fix one)?

It was done by Gordon Beck some time ago as part of his OS/2 port.  The
current OS/2 version (2.17d) has all of the 2.16d fixes plus fixes for a
number of other bugs that were reported (mainly access violations
unnoticed by DOS).

A started a thread in this group several weeks ago canvassing opinions on
whether we should move KA9Q to an ANSI C baseline.  Malcolm was happy in
principle to move to an ANSI version but he wanted to make sure that such
a move wouldn't break any existing versions of KA9Q derived from the
Demon sources.  I recall that the consensus reached was that moving to
ANSI would be a good thing and would not materially affect any of the
other versions tracking the Demon sources.

If you want to look at the ANSI source, it's included with the OS/2
version and the URL is something like

    ftp://ftp.demon.co.uk/pub/os2/netos2/ka9q217d-os2.260.src.zip

There are Makefiles for Borland C / Microsoft C under DOS as well as
Borland C / IBM C under OS/2.  I'll try building the DOS version with
Borland C 3.1 later on today.

Niel
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Dr C Niel Kempson
Snowy Owl Systems Limited
E-mail: kempson@snowyowl.co.uk (Internet)