Borland Power Pack for DOS

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I'm trying to locate a new or used Borland Power Pack

for DOS, with documentation, for use with Borland 3.1 C++.

Probably willing to pay whatever you believe it's worth.

Need the run-time DOS extender. I'm still a believer

in DOS programming. My engineering programs run like

lightning on a 386, though I use a Pentium now.

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: I'm trying to locate a new or used Borland Power Pack

: for DOS, with documentation, for use with Borland 3.1 C++.

: Probably willing to pay whatever you believe it's worth.

: Need the run-time DOS extender. I'm still a believer

: in DOS programming. My engineering programs run like

: lightning on a 386, though I use a Pentium now.

Well, I'll throw in my comments just because nobody has answered, but it isn't exactly the answer your looking for (assuming you didn't locate a copy yet).

My friend was a Borland freak, and I found him a copy of it on the internet, even though I told him that IMO Watcom is much better for 32bit DOS programming (and DJGPP for that matter). He didn't listen, paid about $80 for the his copy, and didn't like it at all. It is more of a hack for 32bits than anything else, and I don't even think they had the bugs worked out when they canceled support for it.

I suggest you get DJGPP for free, or Watcom 11.0 if you really want to do 32bit DOS. They were designed for it.

If you still want PP, and haven't found a copy yet, try posting on the comp.msdos.programmer (or whatever it is), as that's where I found my friend his copy.

One other thing, I'm fairly certain that you can't use Borland 3.1 with PP, since 3.1 is only a 16bit compiler. Unless PP comes with a 32bit compiler and assembler, your going to have to buy a a newer version of Borland anyway, and they've separated the C++ compiler and TASM32 into 2 products (were they on drugs when they did that??!)

Rock

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: : I'm trying to locate a new or used Borland Power Pack

: : for DOS, with documentation, for use with Borland 3.1 C++.

: : Probably willing to pay whatever you believe it's worth.

: : Need the run-time DOS extender. I'm still a believer

: : in DOS programming. My engineering programs run like

: : lightning on a 386, though I use a Pentium now.

: Well, I'll throw in my comments just because nobody has answered, but it isn't exactly the answer your looking for (assuming you didn't locate a copy yet).

: My friend was a Borland freak, and I found him a copy of it on the internet, even though I told him that IMO Watcom is much better for 32bit DOS programming (and DJGPP for that matter). He didn't listen, paid about $80 for the his copy, and didn't like it at all. It is more of a hack for 32bits than anything else, and I don't even think they had the bugs worked out when they canceled support for it.

: I suggest you get DJGPP for free, or Watcom 11.0 if you really want to do 32bit DOS. They were designed for it.

: If you still want PP, and haven't found a copy yet, try posting on the comp.msdos.programmer (or whatever it is), as that's where I found my friend his copy.

: One other thing, I'm fairly certain that you can't use Borland 3.1 with PP, since 3.1 is only a 16bit compiler. Unless PP comes with a 32bit compiler and assembler, your going to have to buy a a newer version of Borland anyway, and they've separated the C++ compiler and TASM32 into 2 products (were they on drugs when they did that??!)

: Rock

Rock,

Thank you for the information. I'll go with Watcom 11, since I'm sure

you are right about Borland. I've been trying unsuccessfully to get

some info about their DOS extender for over a month. The specs on

Watcom 11 look good.

I'm not sure whether or not I'll have to reenter all the code--it will

take a while with 150 pages. Perhaps this is the time to port it to

Windows, which I dislike, but acknowledge most users prefer. Thanks

again.

Frank Tighe