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Subject:	Re: Cross Platform Incompatabilites?
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Date:	Sat, 07 Feb 2004 18:29:15 GMT
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Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
> 
> I have DJGPP installed on my computer at home, which is running
> DOS 6.1.  I have written C code which I run on two other platforms:
> 
> 1]Windows 98
>     a) DOS shell from Windows
>     b) Command prompt from boot
> 
> 2] Windows 2000
>      DOS shell from Windows
> 
> The results from 1(a) and 2 agree.  The results from 1(b) and DOS
> 6.1 do not agree with each other or with the results from  1(a) and
> 2. Both 1(b) and DOS 6.1 have the DPMI routines that come with DJGPP.

Salient differences:  DOS 6.1 and 1(b) do not handle long file
names nor multitasking.  DOS 6.1 cannot access FAT32 partitions.
W2000 does peculiar things associated with hardware access, from
the DOS viewpoint.

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