Re: RE: CODE/400

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From: Simon Coulter <shc@flybynight.com.au>

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>> Date: Fri, 06 Mar 98 08:05:26 -0700
>> From: "David Morris" <dmorris@plumcreek.com>
>> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
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>> Subject: Re: RE: CODE/400
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>>
>> Simon,
>>
>> The original version of Flex/Edit only ran under OS/2.  It had several
features that
>> the current version could use.  The ability to open a live summarized
view of a source
>> member was feature.  Which was first?  I don't know, but I started using
FlexEdit
>> with version 1.3 of OS/2.  OS/2 at that time was seriously crippled by
it's lack of
>> flexibility in assigning IRQ's.  In order to use a bisync card I had to
disable my mouse.
>> Several patches later on V2 that was fixed.
>>
>> David Morris
>>
>
>Hello David,
>
>OK, I stand corrected.  I never knew that.  The only information I have
about Flex/Edit is
>that it is windows-based and no mention was made of it ever running under
OS/2, not even
>WIN-OS2.  Did the OS/2 version also lack the ability to manage source from
the host?
>
>I agree that version 1.x of OS/2 was not all that it could have been.
Version 2.x was OS/2 as
>originally envisaged.  Mostly due to IBM keeping it's promise to purchasers
of the AT -- that
>a multi-tasking OS would be provided for the 80286.


The information on Flex/Edit is incorrect.  The original version was a
dual-bound DOS/OS2 application, the core of which was the PVCS Professional
Editor from Intersolv, Inc.  It actually came out before the first version
of CODE/400.  I still have a copy of it here in my office, and still used it
occasionally as recently as 1996 (it has a few features that the newer
CodeWright-based Flex/Edit for Windows still hasn't duplicated).

Flex/Edit for Windows will run under OS/2, up through the last 16-bit
version (2.2).  I was the author of the technical bulletin on how to set it
up for uploading and downloading in Win-OS2, back in '94 when it was still
Picante Software's product.  In fact, I had fewer problems running it in
OS/2 2.11 back then than I have with it in Win 95B today.  Sigh.

Buck's problem with moving the source around is not a Flex/Edit problem per
se - it uses the old 16-bit Client Access file transfer API's for its
uploads and downloads, so if he can't connect to a system using Client
Access over SNA, he has to get the source from that system to one that he
can connect to.  His source change control problems simply reflect the
traditional lack of proper change management systems on most AS/400's.

Dave Shaw, General Nutrition, Greenville, SC (just down the road from BMW -
Bubba Makes Wheels :)
The opinions expressed may not be my employer's unless I'm sufficiently
persuasive...



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