From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: a.out, is this file is runnable on linux
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NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 21:34:42 GMT
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Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 21:34:42 GMT
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On Mon, 27 Mar 2000 07:56:10 GMT, Mark & Candice White
<mhewii AT home DOT com> wrote:

>Djgpp is a port of gcc to dos. The main reason an a.out file
>made in dos will not run in linux is that while the format of the
>file is similar, the djgpp code calls dos to do things like read
>the keyboard and write to the screen. Linux will have no idea
>what your program is trying to do and will consider this code
>erroneous.

However, there is something called DOSEMU...

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