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Message-ID: <19971016225312.3226.qmail@hotmail.com>
From: "John Patton" <gimli21 AT hotmail DOT com>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: The future of Djgpp
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 15:53:12 PDT


>From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
>Subject: Re: The future of Djgpp
>Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 08:34:22 -0500
>To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
>
>Mike Darrett wrote:
>> 
>> Do you mean Windows 98? You mean, it won't support ANY DOS programs? 
Not
>> even running them from Windows itself? Where did you get this inside
>> information?
>> 
>> > When Win 2000 comes out is DJGPP still going to work?  Because
>> > Win 2000 will not be connected to Dos in any way.
>
>Don't know about Windows 2000, but in the Windows 98 beta machine, all
>of my DJGPP programs still work.  This include the C compiler, Text
>Utils, Shell Utils, Grep, Awk, TeX, Groff, Make, everything, long file
>names and all.
>
>However, Allegro won't work any more. 
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>(Just kidding. :)  I don't use Allegro.)
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>--
>Weiqi Gao
>weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com
>

Hi,

I was under the impression that if you've installed all of the OSR2 
updates (or have Windows 95B) and installed Internet Exploder 4.0 beta 
release 2.5, you have essentially the Windows 98 beta.  I could be 
wrong, but that's what it looks like to me.  It performs about as bad, 
anyway.

-John Patton



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