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Re: DOS/BATCH.TXT -based Newsreader possibilities

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From: Nick Leverton
Date: Tue, 12 Aug 1997 00:00
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In article <kehnppab@holly.demon.co.uk>
   mcr@holly.demon.co.uk (Mark Rogers) writes:
>In Article <871189152snx@warren.demon.co.uk> Nick Leverton writes:
>>
>>Borland C++ v4.5 - eighteen quid from Microworld whilst stocks last
>
>Or free off the cover of last month's PC-Plus. I hadn't considered it 
>as it didn't have an extender (I do have that issue of PCP, though).

I thought the cover-disk copy didn't allow redistribution of objects.
It'd be OK if it's only for your own use though.

>>Though it doesn't "come with" a DOS extender, details
>>of how to extract and use its undocumented built-in one were posted to
>>comp.os.msdos.programmer just last week.  I haven't tried it yet but 
>
>Do you have a pointer to this? I also have Borland Pascal which does 
>have a royalty-free extender, and I recall reading somewhere that you 
>can use that with BC++, but I long ago lost the reference :-(

I would, but I just tried the instructions and they didn't work.  I'm
about to go and ask in c.o.m.p - I'll report back if I get an answer.
Or if anyone has a recent copy of tasm and tasm32, I have a hunch they
might be required to build the DPMI libraries omitted from the
distribution ...

Nick
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From: leveret@warren.demon.co.uk (Nick Leverton)
Subject: Re: DOS/BATCH.TXT -based Newsreader possibilities
Date: 1997/08/12
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