X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f Message-ID: <4025194B.AF9F6992@yahoo.com> From: CBFalconer Organization: Ched Research X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Cross Platform Incompatabilites? References: <3 DOT 0 DOT 1 DOT 16 DOT 20040204105918 DOT 33f75924 AT earthlink DOT net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 27 Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 18:29:15 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 12.76.137.33 X-Complaints-To: abuse AT worldnet DOT att DOT net X-Trace: bgtnsc04-news.ops.worldnet.att.net 1076178555 12.76.137.33 (Sat, 07 Feb 2004 18:29:15 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 07 Feb 2004 18:29:15 GMT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Ethan Rosenberg wrote: > > I have DJGPP installed on my computer at home, which is running > DOS 6.1. I have written C code which I run on two other platforms: > > 1]Windows 98 > a) DOS shell from Windows > b) Command prompt from boot > > 2] Windows 2000 > DOS shell from Windows > > The results from 1(a) and 2 agree. The results from 1(b) and DOS > 6.1 do not agree with each other or with the results from 1(a) and > 2. Both 1(b) and DOS 6.1 have the DPMI routines that come with DJGPP. Salient differences: DOS 6.1 and 1(b) do not handle long file names nor multitasking. DOS 6.1 cannot access FAT32 partitions. W2000 does peculiar things associated with hardware access, from the DOS viewpoint. -- Chuck F (cbfalconer AT yahoo DOT com) (cbfalconer AT worldnet DOT att DOT net) Available for consulting/temporary embedded and systems. USE worldnet address!