Date: Sun, 14 Jul 1996 12:48:57 -0400
Message-Id: <199607141648.MAA09228@delorie.com>
From: DJ Delorie <dj>
To: dabloodgod AT aol DOT com
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <4sb2bb$ofp@newsbf02.news.aol.com> (dabloodgod@aol.com)
Subject: Re: go-32 and Linux DOSEMU


> Ive been reading this thread and am a little confused about it - Are we
> discussing using LINUX DOSEMU to run go32 and the djgpp software under
> linux ?

Yes.

> This seems a little backwards - why not just compile using native gcc on
> LINUX and go - I suppose the answer to my question is that there are go32
> programs, whose source code is not available that need to be run, or that
> the go32 programs make extensive use the Dos interface

Because some people want to use a real development environment (Linux)
to make software that sells to a big market (msdos).  There are other
reasons.  For example, at the moment my PC is running delorie.com, so
I can only work on djgpp in a dosemu box.  If I just built djgpp under
native linux, it wouldn't be very useful to people, now would it?