Date:	Sun, 13 Oct 1996 14:31:42 -0400
Message-Id:	<199610131831.OAA00077@delorie.com>
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
To:	eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il
CC:	grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl, fighteer AT cs DOT com, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.961013123627.15719F-100000@is> (message from Eli
	Zaretskii on Sun, 13 Oct 1996 12:40:18 +0200 (IST))
Subject:	Re: Install thingy

> > I decided, following advices, to make the installed a real mode program. It
> > assures it will run everytime on any system.  So the idea with stubify falls
> 
> I urge you to reconsider.  Hard as it might be, writing it in DJGPP 
> ensures that any problem can always be fixed, since we have source to 
> everything.  If it isn't written with free tools, you might have problems 
> for which there is no solution and no work-around.

I concur.  The whole point of V2 (originally) was to remove the need
to purchase (and support) a competing compiler just to build djgpp.

If it can be built with/for djgpp, please do it that way.

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