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From: Damian Yerrick <Bullcr_pd_yerrick AT hotmail DOT comRemoveBullcr_p>
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Subject: Re: The Future of DJGPP
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On Sat, 02 Sep 2000 22:02:05 +0100, Richard Dawe
<rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote:

>A quick look at the changelog in DJGPP CVS, I see that post-2.03 changes
>include:
>
>* Support for FAT32 drives;

I already compile and run DJGPP programs on my Windows 98
FAT32 partition on my laptop without problems.  What's new?

>* Symlink support;

How can this work?  I know DJGPP already supports symlinks to
executables (a loader stub that says "load the COFF image from
another file").  But DJGPP runs on DOS, which uses the FAT
filesystem, which has no support for general symlinks.

>I haven't used it much under Windows NT, but I guess it works
>better now there's a good LFN driver for NT.

Doesn't work on NT 5 (Windows 2000) which has an annoying limit of
two nested DPMI programs (Make or RHIDE runs GCC but GCC can't run
the preprocessor).  We may need a Win32 hosted DJGPP for this.

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