From:	mcastle AT cs DOT umr DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Some Questions & Comments
To:	pcrowley AT qdeck DOT com (Peter Crowley)
Date:	Tue, 24 Nov 92 20:59:25 CST
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, chuck AT atlsita DOT org

> 
> >May I presume you to be Quarterdeck Offices Systems official interface to
> >the net-people for DV/X?? If so, some (maybe stupid) questions:
> 
> Sorry about the delay, I was out most of last week and still have unread
> messages. No this is not part of my job.  E-mail support for Quarterdeck
> products is provided on the Internet by sending requests to support AT qdeck DOT com.

Oh, really?  I was beginning to think you guys were getting paid to do this!
Actually, I wonder is using mailling lists and netnews as 'official' forums
for support might be bad etiquette, or even against 'the rules'.  Still,
it's a good idea to do so in an 'unofficial' manner because it 1) gives 
QOS a good rep.  2) make you a (hopefully) more valuable person to the
company and therefore increasing your net worth (doing anything on your
own time for a company is always a good idea :-).

> 
> >  - How does one utilize the DLLs?
> 
> A program needs to be built to use them. We currently only have DLLs that
> support Microsoft C 6.0 (and probably 7.0).  You would need the X11 Toolkit
> (about $300).

Eh, what's this?  DLL for DV/X?  I didn't know that!  If you do release, 
make sure the first port is for djgpp!! (hey, this is djgpp mailling list
after all).

OBdjgpp:  When reading the c.o.m.dv faq, I noticed something along the
lines of 'only some of the dv calls are supported in protected mode'.  
Does that mean it would be impossible to call most dv calls directly from
PM without changing go32 to switch to real mode to do it?  That is, could 
it be possible to write dv-specific apps with djgpp? (talking dv classic
here, and earlier ones than the one supplied with dv/x too)

more random babblings,
mrc

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