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|    Tony Langdon to Sean Dennis    |
|    Re: ArcaOS DOS window fi    |
|    03 Jun 20 20:26:00    |
      TZUTC: 1000       MSGID: 44.fido-os2@3:633/410 233cbed5       REPLY: 1:18/200.0 5ed6c19a       PID: Synchronet 3.17c-Linux Nov 3 2019 GCC 4.6.3       TID: SBBSecho 3.10-Linux r3.146 Nov 3 2019 GCC 4.6.3       CHRS: ASCII 1       -=> On 06-02-20 16:16, Sean Dennis wrote to Don Lowery <=-               SD> WINE is not the end-all-be-all to run Windows programs. WINE is a        SD> kludge. Now there is something similar to WINE for OS/2 called Odin              Did Odin ever mature? I thought it stalled.               SD> though I have never used it. There's something else also, I think        SD> called "win32s", but I have never explored either option and perhaps        SD> others in here would be better suited to help you with this.              Win32s is a sumset of Win32, and it initially appeared in the Windows 3.x days.        It provided a limited subset of Win32 functionality for 16 bit apps. Win32s       isn't an OS/2 thing, it's a Microsoft thing.               SD> I admit that if it wasn't for the BBS, I'd not be dealing with OS/2        SD> anymore. There's still too many limitations for me to use ArcaOS as my        SD> personal OS even though I still love OS/2 in general.              ArcaOS is what I'd like to really resurrect my old BBS under, though it looks       like it's likely to come back under DOS/Qemu under Linux or Win64 first.                     ... Grdauaet @TO@ shcool of typign       === MultiMail/Win v0.51       --- SBBSecho 3.10-Linux        * Origin: Freeway BBS Bendigo,Australia freeway.apana.org.au (3:633/410)       SEEN-BY: 1/123 18/200 90/1 120/340 601 123/131 226/30 227/114 702       SEEN-BY: 229/101 424 426 452 616 664 1014 240/5832 249/206 317 400       SEEN-BY: 292/854 317/3 322/757 342/200 633/0 267 280 281 384 410 412       SEEN-BY: 633/416 712/848       PATH: 633/410 280 229/426           |
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