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From:	brucef AT central DOT co DOT nz (Bruce Foley)
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Subject:	Re: DJGPP HELP!!!!!
Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 1996 10:15:38 GMT
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ccjm AT dstn06 DOT dct DOT ac DOT uk (Colin MacDonald) wrote:
>Try something like Turbo C/C++ or Visual C, or read a book. DJGPP is written by
>and for old codgers, not eager young whipper-snappers.

>Good luck,

>	-Colin MacDonald- = http://river.tay.ac.uk/~insicm/index.html =

I have recently switched from Borland C (real-mode) to DJGPP's
DPMI environment, and to be honest, I have found it to be quite
straight forward.  Any added complexities are due to the fact that
it is DPMI, but then again, any compiler that offers DPMI
(and the choices are limited) will have this.  The only thing I
would say is that none of the debuggers I have encountered can
hold a candle (IMHO) to Borlands Turbo Debugger; or even
Code View, for that matter.
I guess I only really consider this a problem because when I learnt C
and Asm I found using Turbo Debugger to be a great learning tool.
All the same, I paid cold hard cash for all my Borland stuff, and
even then, they could not offer a decent DPMI compiler.  Certainly
nothing to compare to DJGPP.
In fact, Borland 5 doesn't even support DPMI -they say you
have to install 4.5 as well if you want to write 32-bit DOS apps.
Considering Borland 5 took up about 150 Megs, that's asking
alot.

Bruce.

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