From: Joseph Morris <jpm AT it-he DOT org>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: djgpp and Win2K
Date: Fri, 07 Jul 2000 14:56:13 +0100
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> Windows 2000 has problems with running nested DJGPP programs.  This
> means that you will probably be unable to build programs by running
> the Make utility.  Compilation from the command line does work.  Since
> Bash is a DJGPP program, you might have problems with nesting levels
> more than one.
> 
> Another problem reported on Windows 2000 is that `touch' (from
> Fileutils) sometimes fails.
> 
> My advice would be not to upgrade if you can.

I presume this means that no-one has tried the service pack yet, or
if so, it had a negative result?

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