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[Note cross-posts]

Niel Kempson used to maintain the OS/2 version of KA9Q; indeed, at one
time he got all the "variation" into conditionally-included code, IIRC.

Since the last release of the EXE file for KA9Q/2 (5-AUG-1996) the bug
with accidental mailkilling has been discovered (although not fixed in
the official DOS version either); also Dom and others have made many
interesting developments with the DOS version.

About six months ago I asked Niel if he could recompile KA9Q/2 to fix at
least the mailkill bug but he told me that he was unable so to do because
he no longer had a licensed compiler.  I have only the gcc compiler for
OS/2, and have been unsuccessful in using this to recompile KA9Q/2
(without the bug fixes).

Is there anyone else there with the IBM C++ Developers' Toolkit (or
whatever is needed) who could perform this recompilation?  As the old
hands may have noticed, Niel has been conspicuous by his absence of late;
AIUI, he has "got a life" :-)  Nevertheless, I'm e-mailing a copy of this
posting to him in the hope that he might interpolate into this thread
just what is required to compile KA9Q/2, and perhaps provide guidance for
any new volunteer.

-- 
Brian {Hamilton Kelly}                                         bhk@dsl.co.uk
        "The fundamental design flaws [of the products of the Micros^WSirius
        Cybernetics Corporation]  are completely hidden by their superficial
        design flaws."  SLATFATF 1983 --- wasn't Douglas Adams prescient?:-)