Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: The future of Djgpp
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In article <Pine DOT GSO DOT 3 DOT 95 DOT 971015185926 DOT 1055A-100000 AT catbert DOT ucdavis DOT edu>, 
ez073236 AT mailbox DOT ucdavis DOT edu says...
>
>Do you mean Windows 98? You mean, it won't support ANY DOS programs? Not
>even running them from Windows itself? Where did you get this inside
>information?
>
>                - Mike
>
>On Wed, 15 Oct 1997, Daerian Majere wrote:
>
>> When Win 2000 comes out is DJGPP still going to work?  Because
>> Win 2000 will not be connected to Dos in any way.
>> 
This is a problem now, since DJGPP 2 doesn't support the new Win95 file
names.  (To tell the honest truth, Win95 doesn't support the new file names
completely either.  Just do a lookup on a CDRom with long file names, and
see what it gets you.)