Date:	Fri, 18 Apr 1997 00:09:12 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Pierre Phaneuf <pp AT 55-174 DOT hy DOT cgocable DOT ca>
Reply-To:	pierre AT tycho DOT com
cc:	opendos-developer AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Usage of directory entries
In-Reply-To:	<ACF4gLpW27@mpak.convey.ru>
Message-ID:	<Pine.LNX.3.95.970418000618.4185B-100000@55-174.hy.cgocable.ca>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, -= ArkanoiD =- wrote:

> > And from what I've heard, the OpenDOS sources needs a gazillion compilers
> > to build... Yes, definitely, we'd need some standard free compilers! I
> > don't know of good 16-bit C compilers for free (in the GPL sense),
> 
> btw gcc requires 32-bit machine to run but it *can* produce 16-bit or even
> 8-bit code - so why djgpp can not?

Hmm! Didn't know that! If so, we need to check this out real soon! I'm big
on using a single compiler, and gcc would suit me fine! So, if we can get
DJGPP's gcc to compile 16-bit real mode, that'd would allow us to use gcc
for all the version of OpenDOS (after a damn large conversion!)!

Pierre Phaneuf

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