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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Sun, 8 Jan 1995 00:32:43 MST
To: icon-group-l@cs.arizona.edu
Date: 8 Jan 1995 06:20:38 GMT
From: Blake McBride <blake@edge.ercnet.com>
Message-Id: <3eo07m$k8h@edge.ercnet.com>
Organization: The Edge
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
Subject: Some Questions
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
Hello,
I used ICON several years ago and after reading the faq on
ICON I decided to give it another look. The thing that really
caught my eye was the object oriented extension, IDOL. I
downloaded the MS-DOS source and executables as well as the
library which contained IDOL. After looking at the stuff for a short
time, I became curious about a couple of things and thought I'd
post the questions to the net prior to going any further. I
sure would appreciate answers to the following questions:
1. I noticed that the source code under the MS-DOS packages area
only contained the source for DOS (and maybe OS/2). I use
MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows NT, and Linux on a daily basis.
I, therefore, would like to have source for all those environments,
however, I don't want to download and keep 4 or more copies of
virtually the same files. Is there a _single_ .tar.gz file I
can download which containes the entire source tree for all supported
platforms? If not can I convince someone to produce such an animal?
2. The FAQ talked about an ICON->C compiler. Since it didn't
come with my MS-DOS package, I am curious about what environments
support the compiler? Can it be made to run under DOS (32 bit)?
Where is the source to it?
3. Are there many people making real use of IDOL? If so, whats
your opinion of it? Will it work in conjunction with the ICON->C
compiler? How effecient is it?
Well, thanks for the help!
--blake <blake@edge.ercnet.com>