From:	Paul Koning 1695 <pkoning AT chipcom DOT com>
To:	djgpp mailing list <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>
Subject:	RE: Gnu C under Windows?
Date:	Thu, 16 Mar 95 10:37:00 PST
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>From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
>Subject: Gnu C under Windows?

>>dj AT delorie DOT mv DOT com (DJ Delorie) replied:-
>> With the absense of the extender, all the issues for itnerfacing with
>> Windows reside in the program itself - it's just a plain DPMI program. In
>> theory, with the right libraries and linker (or executable converter), 
you
>> could make a pure Win32 application.
>
>And Windows 3.1 please: a great lot of people still have Windows 3.1 .

Presumably you mean the Win16 API (in plain old Windows 3.1).  That
doesn't make any sense with DJGPP since it's a 16 bit API, with segmentation
and all that ugly crud.

In any case, there's no need for that since you can run Win32 applications
under Windows 3.1, just install Win32s (which you can get free from
Microsoft's file server).  You'll need it anyway to run Mosaic, if you
prefer that over the other WWW browsers.

     paul

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