From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id:	<10107262018.AA16742@clio.rice.edu>
Subject:	Win2K testing, WinXP testing
To:	djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Thu, 26 Jul 2001 15:18:43 -0500 (CDT)
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While my time to help out on development of DJGPP is limited, I'd like to
make sure it has a healthy future.  Some of the recent traffic and progress
on Windows 2000 has inspired me to worry about the "Next Great Headache" - XP.
I've currently got XP RC1 up on a test system - with mixed results (more
things are broken than under Windows 2000, but most of it works).

I've rejoined the list, I've got two thoughts I'd like to get feedback on.

1) If there are some "unit tests" that I could run on XP maybe we could
isolate some of the broken functionality.  Volunteers to help set this up,
or identify problems would be appreciated.  It would be nice to be able to
have the next major release support XP as well as Windows 2000.

2) Windows 2000 and Windows XP support telnet into a console.  This means 
I can potentially let certain trusted individuals to have direct access
to a "console window" on these systems, if this would help.  (I've been
testing this over the last few days with Eli's help).

Thoughts appreciated.  Thanks.

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