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Re: Rob: Bug with Windows trasking translator

• Posted by D. Newhall <derek_newhall at yahoo.com> Feb 16, 2006
• 746 views

Vincent wrote:
> 
(snip)
> This has been happening since day one for me with the translator. It isn't a
> big deal, just press "Alt-Enter" to restore windowed mode. I agree that it's
> a little annoying, but it certainly isn't a critical flaw worth deleting a
> perfectly
> good compiler with nearly hundreds of bug fixes, 
> new features, improvements, and optimizations since the 10.x series.

But at the same time the Euphoria code works and works well so those bug fixes
and to a lesser extent the optimizations aren't necessary for Euphoria.
Personally I would prefer to not have to press Alt-Enter everytime I run a
Euphoria program. However, it might be worth looking into how previous versions
of OpenWatcom handle it. If OpenWatcom 1.2 doesn't maximize the window then Rob
could experiment using that.


> Remember we're talking about DOS here, I hardly ever read any DOS related
> discussions
> on the EUforum, which makes me suspect that few people are using it anymore.
> In fact, I doubt that many people would care if you one day decided to drop
> support for it (however Igor and I might get upset). 

For command line only things I always use the DOS interpreter because it's one
less character I have to type and it's the lowest common denominator for Euphoria
meaning if it works with the DOS version it'll (almost) always work with the
other ones (except system() calls). I also mess around with FreeDOS alot and all
our instruments at the place I work at use DOS so I would very much like to be
able to use Euphoria on those platforms.


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