Mail Archives: djgpp/1994/12/22/12:21:50
> Speaking of OS/2... does anyone know how well DJGPP works with
> OS/2 Warp??? It's in the stores now (around $65) and I was thinking of
> picking it up, but I want it to behave with DJGPP.
I installed Warp last week. I haven't done anything really fancy with
either it or djgpp, but tests I've run with GNAT-DJGPP and GNAT-OS/2,
including our GNAT-DOS editor - which we compiled with BCC-DOS to keep it
from eating RAM with its own go32 - have been fine so far. OS/2 is a quite
well-behaved system; a number of my colleagues say they prefer running
DOS apps under OS/2 to running them native. I do not often say nice things
about IBM, but IMHO they got this one right.
Install WARP as a dual-boot system, so you can boot native DOS in a pinch.
I've got WARP installed in my C: FAT partition, and allocated 50 megs
on my second drive for HPFS so I can run real OS/2 apps with the OS/2
file system (long names, etc.). This has worked very well for both
OS/2 2.1 and WARP (officially OS/2 3.0).
Mike Feldman
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