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   From: Jonathan de Boyne Pollard    
      
   >> You've got my curiosity up now. I'll look and see if I can sort out    
   >> the various Watcom releases. I know the DirectToSOM functionality    
   >> disappeared before the openWatcom era, likely because of license    
   >> issues, but I'm fairly certain that at least one Watcom release    
   >> included it because I tried to use it - with less than stellar results.   
   >>   
   > The contents list on the back of the CD-case insert for Watcom 10.5    
   > lists "IBM SOM toolkit v2.0", which may or may not be what you mean.   
   >   
      
   The toolkit is the IDL compiler and related knick-knacks.  DirectToSOM    
   C++ is the ability to write a SOM class just as if it were a C++ class.     
   As far as I know, no version of Watcom C/C++ has ever had that    
   capability.  It would be good if OpenWatcom C/C++ were to gain it, but    
   it's not something that it has ever had, at least in any version that    
   I've ever used.   
      
      
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