Enhanced DRI PL/I-86 Compiler Available

A couple of years ago, I put some finishing touches on a project I began back in 1988, when I got a copy of the DRI PL/I-86 compiler. Back then, it wasn't the freeware that it is today. But of course, today, you can download it from either of the two sites above. My goal was to modify it so that it one could use the Microsoft linker and librarian instead of the DRI linker and librarian; with this change it would be possible to mix object modules from other Microsoft-compatible compilers. Also, I wanted to revise and extend the runtime system. I completed most everything except providing access to DOS environment variables. But the DATE() and TIME() BIFs work as they should, and you can pass the command line arguments by defining them as arguments to main() much as in C. DRI and Microsoft both used the Intel OMF format for the object files, so it wasn't hard. But like many projects, it just got stalled for along time. I recently packaged it up and forwarded it to Peter Flass, noted PL/I advocate who's omnipresent on comp.lang.pli. He's going to include it in some archive, but didn't mention which. You may or may not end up seeing at the two above sites. But if anyone out there is interested in it, you can also obtain it directly from me. Regards, -dq -Douglas Hurst Quebbeman (DougQ at ixnayamspayIgLou.com) [Call me "Doug"] Surgically excise the pig-latin from my e-mail address in order to reply "The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away." -Tom Waits