Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/09/01/10:48:45
Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Peter J. Farley III wrote:
>
> > > As DJGPP creates 32 bit DPMI applications You'll be NOT able to run
> > > any 16 bit DPMI application (e.g Borland C++ 3.1 IDE or something else)
> > > from it
> >
> > Well, when we get it built clean enough to run, I guess we'll have to
> > deal with that issue.
>
> There's nothing new in this problem. The same limitation exists if
> you use Bash, or RHIDE, or Emacs, or any other DJGPP program to launch
> other applications.
>
> Who needs to run 16-bit DPMI programs, anyway? ;-)
I agree with Eli, after all the djgpp idea is to port the GNU tools to DOS,
you can do all the normal stuff using djgpp tools. Why run BC++ 3.1? or the
protected mode TASM, use RHIDE and NASM ;-)
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