Subj : Re: D'Bridge 4 status
To   : Vince Coen
From : Nick Andre
Date : Mon Jan 29 2018 10:39 pm

On 26 Jan 18  18:04:33, Vince Coen said the following to Nick Andre:

 > I managed to get DBUTIL compiled for Linux and Windows 32/64-bit, but
 > the mailer, editor, nodelist compiler, etc. makes heavy use of a
 > third-party library called Turbopower. The database code would need a
 > complete overhaul to say nothing about all of the assembler-code for
 > EMSI/Zmodem, dialup, etc.
VC> 
VC> I seem to have that is use with FileMgr but do not have all of the source 
VC> libraries that I would
VC> need to convert over to fpc.

Thats whats really holding up the show here, is two sets of 3rd-party 
developer tools that are VERY specific to MS-DOS.

One is Turbopower's B-Tree ISAM library for the nodelist compiler, the other 
is TPCRT to replace the standard CRT library.

I can deal with rewriting the TPCRT components but man, the ISAM code is so 
deeply nested, so intertwined, so involved with ALL aspects of the mailer.

Nick

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