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   andrew clarke to All   
   OS/2 version of timEd   
   12 Jan 18 19:05:54   
   
   12 Jan 18 03:25, I wrote to Robert Wolfe:   
      
    ac> It (and NetMgr, etc) was open sourced in November 2000 (released as   
    ac> ART_SRC.ZIP), and that code contains about a year's worth of changes   
    ac> from the original author since his 1995 release, including (unfinished,   
    ac> IIRC) code to port it to Windows NT:   
      
    ac> http://bbs.ozzmosis.com/art_src.zip   
      
    ac> I don't recall if it actually builds, and at this point it still has Y2K   
    ac> bugs.   
      
   Some sense of deja vu here as I may have looked at building the OS/2 version   
   years ago but don't recall getting very far.   
      
   Good news: After about an hour I got the OS/2 version to build using Watcom   
   10.5. OpenWatcom 1.9 should also work, but I haven't tested it.   
      
   Bad news: Building it required removing the nodelist lookup code as it depends   
   on the proprietory (and evidently still closed source) Mix C Database Toolkit.   
   Most of this stems from the unnecessary complexity of the old V7 nodelist   
   format, although having said that, IIRC the OS/2 version of BinkleyTerm can   
   work with V7 nodelists and is entirely open source. Still, whoever decided on   
   that format all those years ago was a complete masochist.   
      
   Good news: It runs!   
      
   Bad news: It does indeed still have Y2K bugs which require fixing, but this   
   isn't difficult provided they can all be found again.   
      
   Good news: I'm inclined to put the source on GitHub.   
      
   Bad news: The OS/2 version crashes on startup when there are more than ~127   
   columns in the OS/2 Command Prompt window. It looks like it's using unsigned   
   short in the code somewhere instead of unsigned int.   
      
   Bad news: I can't get the Watcom Debugger to show the source code to allow me   
   to step through the code. I'm probably doing something wrong. The OpenWatcom   
   build might work though.   
      
   --- GoldED+/BSD 1.1.5-b20170303   
    * Origin: Blizzard of Ozz, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia (3:633/267)   

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