Date:	Thu, 14 Jul 94 11:56:51 EDT
From:	jes AT mbio DOT med DOT upenn DOT edu (Joe Smith)
Posted-Date:	Thu, 14 Jul 94 11:56:51 EDT
To:	flaregun AT strauss DOT udel DOT edu
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Suggestions

OK, I'm sure I'll be sorry for bring this up - but hey, you guys
(generically speaking!) have seen me with my foot in my mouth
before...

Instead of bending over backward to do DOS-hosted development,
wouldn't it make more sense to work on a first-class Linux-hosted
environment where we'd have *all* the tools and they would just work
and we could forget about long command lines, broken shells, skimpy
filenames, hung systems...

By 'first-class', I mean compiling to a go32 target executable and
then running and debugging that executable under dosemu.  I admit that
I don't know what problems are keeping this from working now.  I've
heard that the 'i386-go32' target environemnt for gcc doesn't work
entirely: the objects still need to be linked under DOS.  And I have
no idea whether dosemu can support (or be made to support) DPMI, but
it seems like it should be possible.  Anyway, it seems like that would
be a more productive direction than trying to drag DOS into the
1980's.  If the new go32 and GRX were available under Linux and/or
dosemu, *that* would be *very* cool.

<Joe

 Joe Smith
 University of Pennsylvania                    jes AT mbio DOT med DOT upenn DOT edu
 Department of Physiology                      (215) 898-0485 - work
 Philadelphia, PA 19104-6059                   (609) 854-6428 - home

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