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 Message 215 
 andrew clarke to All 
 OS/2 version of timEd 
 17 Jan 18 13:38:44 
 
17 Jan 18 13:14, I wrote to all:

 ac> Over the years I'd completely forgotten what an absolutely mess some of
 ac> the code was. Especially timEd.

 ac> Anyway, at this point it's possible for anyone to rebuild NetMgr & timEd
 ac> for OS/2 from the source now on GitHub using OpenWatcom 1.9.

 ac> Windows versions of NetMgr and timEd can also be built, but timEd in
 ac> Windows is completely unusable due to bugs in Gerard van Essen's
 ac> incomplete code that I'm not able to easily fix.

 ac> Also beware the Y2K bugs haven't been patched on the source on GitHub.

I don't know if there was ever an announcement made in this echo when Gerard
ceased development on timEd & NetMgr, but I sort of get the impression he
threw his hands in the air once he realised he was in over his head with
porting timEd to Windows. (Apologies for the mixed metaphors.)

I may have said this years ago, but in hindsight it seems irresponsible that
he never released Y2K-patched versions of his software, at the very least for
the people that actually paid money for it.

It took Tobias Ernst and Wilfried Brinkmann to come up with binary patches,
with the last release (ARTFIX07.ZIP, to my knowledge) in October 1999. Gerard
would not release all the source code until a year later.

End rant :)

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