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On 09/28/2015 12:37 AM, Juan Manuel Guerrero (juan DOT guerrero AT gmx DOT de) [via djgpp AT delorie DOT com] wrote:
>
> It is certainly impossible to use neither FreeDOS nor MSDOS 6.22 for this purpose.
> No matter if LFN support is available or not.  These OS can no longer be used
> to compile DJGPP port of GNU software, if the software exceeds certain complexity.
> Either FreeDOS has issues or Bash has issues.  I do not posses neither Vista
> nor Windows 7 so I cannot check there.  But it should be clear that a NTVDM
> version is required that has full 16-bit support.
I do not know about MS DOS 6.22 (I have not seen it for very long time)

About FreeDOS: FreeDOS 1.1 kernel has bug which breaks nul (and as result /dev/null
for DJGPP), This bag is fixed later. I have not however tried later kernel versions, but it
could be interesting to know whether situation improves with it (or one gets stuck due
to another show-stopper bug).

Andris

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