Date: Fri, 29 Sep 95 23:41:15 EDT
From: "Iota (Tom Wenisch)" <FRITZW AT URIACC DOT URI DOT EDU>
Subject: Re: DJGPP v2 beta Run Under Win95?
To: David Paul Gymer <Dave DOT Gymer AT lambada DOT oit DOT unc DOT edu>,
        djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu, dgymer AT gdcarc DOT co DOT uk

On 29 Sep 1995 08:59:21 GMT you said:
>In article <811905430 DOT 168snx AT techm DOT pl DOT my>,
>Kenneth Foo <kenfoo AT techm DOT pl DOT my> wrote:
>>>I want to buy Win95 ant i don't know if DJGPP v2 (beta) run under this
>>>OS.
>Well, sort of. Win95 seems to suffer from the same thing NT does - it
>can't cope with nested DPMI tasks. The worst symptom is that you can't
>run gcc from within the DJGPPv2 make - in fact, this is the only way
>I've found so far that consistently crashes Win95 out cold. If you've
>got a real-mode or Win32 make then you'll probably be okay.
>-- Gizmo

    Hmmm...  How are you running make?  I use make and djgpp all the time w/o
problem (I'm using djgpp V2b2 (yes I'm still using beta 2, my luck I download
beta 2 the VERY DAY DJ recompiles everything for Beta 3.  I D/L'd at about 10a
and he recompiled at 6a, but the files didn't make it to the FTP sites till the
following day.  Talk about bad luck.  Are there any diffs or patches so I don't
have to download the WHOLE THING again?  Do I have to redownload EVERYTHING
(I matched up ZIP file sizes, everything has changed, but which ones have
really been changed (which have significant difference between beta 2 and beta
3?)

win95 has its quirks, but I haven't had any problems with its DPMI support.