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I need to get the application working on Windows XP.  Unfortunately it
hangs sometimes when running on XP.  It works fine on Windows 3.11,
for which it was originally written.  So I tried to recompile the code
with a 32 bit compiler.  That did not work due to reasons given.  The
application depends on C-scape for the user interface and on Phar-Lap
Dos Extender for the computers and OS's of 1994.

So I'm taking the somewhat lengthy but instructive step of rewriting
the application in Win32.

extenddos@yahoo.com (dosextender) wrote in message news:<d3270101.0405061315.1a6b64e7@posting.google.com>...
> You will need to use the Win32 header files only. The 286 DOS-Extender
> is a 16 bit environment, so header files will not interchange.
> 
> The C-Scape library will probably only work in 16-bit protected mode
> (or even real mode I'm not sure how it was built). Win32 has its own
> native GUI and API.
> 
> I'm not sure how your application works or how much of it depends on
> the DOS-Extender / C-Scape. Why do you need to rebuild it?
> 
> ph8794@yahoo.com (Henry Fleming) wrote in message news:<90cc3865.0405041303.3767657c@posting.google.com>...
> > I did try to rebuild the application with a 32-bit compiler, but it
> > wasn't successful.  I tried to compile it without changing any code. 
> > The compiler complained about some typedefs already being defined, and
> > didn't like the "typedef BYTE huge *ptr" declaration used in many
> > files.  Another thing about this application that I didn't mention is
> > that it uses the C-SCAPE graphical library, and the compiler didn't
> > like some of the code in there either.  I have a feeling that it would
> > take a very long time to fix the problems associated with this.
> > 
> > Should I just rewrite the application in Win32?
> > 
> > extenddos@yahoo.com (dosextender) wrote in message news:<d3270101.0405031444.52f605d7@posting.google.com>...
> > > Yes you can rewrite the application to use the Win32 Native 32-bit
> > > API.
> > > 
> > > I would rebuild the application with a 32 bit compiler and replace all
> > > OS2/Phar Lap API with their native equivalent.
> > > 
> > > ph8794@yahoo.com (Henry Fleming) wrote in message news:<90cc3865.0405012031.328e4ab@posting.google.com>...
> > > > Hi
> > > > I'm trying to port a 16-bit DOS application to Windows XP.
> > > > The program uses PharLap 286 extender.  Can I discard this when I
> > > > write the Windows XP version?
> > > > 
> > > > Also, what is the best way to go about converting 16-bit DOS
> > > > application to Windows XP version?