From: Vic <tudor AT cam DOT org>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP+Allegro: Porting from DOS to Linux.  Easy or Hard!?!
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 20:48:04 -0400
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Gautam N. Lad wrote:
> BTW, All this DPMI stuff DJGPP is associated with won't cause problems
> like with memory and stuff, when doing a Linux port of my modeller right.  I'm
> not making any hardware calls ; just using C/C++ and Allegro's functions.

The DPMI stuff is not asociated with DJGPP, it is associated with all 32
bit protected mode compilers. DPMI is "native" under LINUX, and you
won't have those problems anyways, since you only use C functions.
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