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I hate to admit it, but the version of Turbo C++ I just pulled out is 1.00. I
departed from the Borland compiler shortly after acquiring this version and did
not keep up with advances. Would I gain any advantages by finding a later
version, or should I use this? The C++ compilers I did use after this were
company versions which I don't have access to.
-Wes
(I had to install a 5.25 drive just to read these diskettes, its scary how
quickly we forget/abandon technology that isn't needed anymore. I sure wish I
could find a version of Java that would run on an old DOS machine.)
Ralph Hempel wrote:
>
> > > > I'll start by pulling the 4x code into the NQC source base. That should
> > > > make it trivial to build a stand-alone command line based downloader for
> > > > Win32 (95/nt/98), Linux, Solaris, and Mac 68k/ppc under MPW. We could
> > > > also get Win3.1 and DOS covered if someone could supply the necessary
> > > > serial port code (there's a single class that implements all serial I/O -
> > > > port the class and you're in business).
> > >
> > > I'm willing to cover the DOS port since I'm working on a DOS->RCX comm project
> > > already. I already have my HP LX200 doing minimal comm with the RCX with hopes
> > > of having it ride alongside as a computational component.
> > >
> > > -Wes Matchett
>
> Wes and Dave,
>
> I pulled out an ancient copy of Turbo C++ 3.0 for DOS. It compiles most of
> the code but chokes on the >8 character file names. I might have to try
> Microsoft VC++ next....to make a DOS executable.
>
> I also found a DOS C Comm library that could probably be converted to
> C++ pretty easily.
>
> I wonder if it is OK to change the filenames to 8.3? I know that DOS has its
> limits, and it's probably not worth converting to it, but it occurs
> to me that a DOS executable would work under WIN3.1 and Win9x as well.
> I think even Linux runs old DOS executables, right?
>
> Since NQC is a console app anyways, it might make it really easy to support
> all platforms by simply supporting DOS...right?
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ralph Hempel - P.Eng
>
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