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Date: Tue, 1 Apr 1997 12:42:56 +0100
From: Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>
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Paul Schmidt wrote:

> What exactly is "DJGPP"?
> Is it a port of gcc nicknamed DJGPP, or is there more to it?

From the FAQ (which can be obtained from SimTel.Net and its mirrors,
for instance ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2):

 2. What is DJGPP?
 *****************

 **Q*: What is DJGPP?*

 *A* :  DJGPP is a port of GNU C/C++ compiler and development tools to
32-bit,
 protected-mode environment on Intel 32-bit CPUs running MS-DOS and
compatible
 operating systems, by DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> and friends. 
Starting from
 v2.0, DJGPP programs do not need a separate extender program, only a
DPMI
 server to run; DJGPP includes a free 32-bit DPMI server which allows
for a
 32-bit, 4 GByte flat address space and up to 256 MBytes of virtual
memory, a
 compiler which produces 32-bit protected-mode code, and a suite of GNU
 development tools ported to MS-DOS.  These provide for a development
 environment which specifically favors porting Unix programs, but is
also
 suitable for writing new code (for example, the DOS version of the
well-known
 game `Quake' by id Software was compiled with DJGPP).  With a few
exceptions
 (notably, some of the C++ class libraries), DJGPP is *free* which makes
it
 deal for developing free and commercial software alike.

 DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com> is the developer and principal maintainer
of
 DJGPP, but anyone is welcome and encouraged to contribute.

Hope that helps,
    Chris