From: ogrimes AT bellatlantic DOT net (Alan Grimes) Subject: om 1 Dec 1998 23:40:37 -0800 Message-ID: <366431E8.397D6A8F.cygnus.gnu-win32@bellatlantic.net> References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 5 DOT 32 DOT 19981130185216 DOT 03c70870 AT localhost> Reply-To: ogrimes AT bellatlantic DOT net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Hello, I joined this mailinglist to ax 2 questions. I have been researching tools to help me write my own operating system. To my great dismay and chagrin I have discovered that acceptably good documentation is nearly impossible to come by. With the GNU packages comes documentation that appearently was written by cygnus employees but these documents are poorly written and very old. Yet when I e-mailed cygnus to see if there was a more recient version available, They responded right back with a completely modern version! Would anybody care to comment on this? I hope cygnus will release the latest versions of all its documentation!!! The old versions are totally inadequate! My second question is about BFD libraries. As I said I am writing an OS. Currently I'm trying to write a simple real mode prototype. It appears that The BFD system does support real mode. But I'm not sure wheather it will support my compiler ( TCC 3.0 ) which produces microsoft .obj files. If these libraries are available please tell me how I can obtain them. :) thanx! In case you are interested The webpage on my OS is the second link in the sig. -- David G. Shreeves says that Civilization is in decline. Iff you say he's wrong then you have just proven that he is right. I am the Red Team Captain at www.nanocomputer.org atc.peon.net/~cyborg/ - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".