PQ> I recall Nick saying that won't happen.  Maybe I'm wrong... probably I'm   
    PQ> wrong.  Nearly exactly three years back he said he was working on v4.xx   
    PQ> for a "multitude of OS platforms".  I thought he said since that he's   
    PQ> somewhat disappointed that he couldn't.   
      
      Soon after Nick took over D'Bridge I was contacted by him and asked if I   
   could help him tidy up the code. It was written in Turbo Pascal (my   
   speciality) and sure enough there were lots of odd solutions -- especially   
   when it came to DOS "cheats" i.e. using undocumented MS-DOS functions.   
      
      I cleaned up all those "cheats" (just as I did with MakeNl, BTW) plus   
   optimized the code in many ways (using analysers and debuggers I had   
   available) and sent the clean code back to him. After that, the code would   
   compile with any Pascal flavour, even Free Pascal or any other Pascal compiler   
   running on a linux box.   
      
      Strangely enough, Nick denied that I even had been involved in the project   
   (I still have it here somewhere) and even called me a liar when I said so.   
   Apparently he never used my effort. So, unless I pick up the baton from where   
   I left, I don't think we will ever see a linux (or even OS/2 :) ) port of it.    
   8-)   
      
      PS: As the originator of this echo, I can assure you that I don't mind at   
   all if you stray a wee bit off topic.   
      
      
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