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Subject: Re: Status of DJGPP
Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2009 23:17:55 -0700 (PDT)
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Hi,

On Mar 17, 11:28=A0am, themouse <usul DOT the DOT mo DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
>
> I am sure they are , I actually have a copy of Borland 4.5 on 20
> floppies. :P

That's more than my copy of Win95 !! (But they were
overformatted.)    ;-)

> But DJGPP is open source and GCC. Since I am interested in creating a
> lite port of xwindows for dos but want it to be portable in case
> anyone wanted
> to port my lite version back.

The old v1 Xlibemu supposedly let you compile GNU Emacs for it, but
almost no one seems to have ever tried or used it (strangely). I
wonder if it was any good. Anyways, that's not compatible with v2, so
it's fairly moot. But at least Emacs is one of the best example apps
for such a thing (multiple frames visible at once, fonts, etc.), IMO.

> [BEGIN SOAPBOX-- you can skip if you want :P]
> And I don't think QuickC or WatcomC are open source. Correct me if I
> am wrong.
> The #1 best way to support open source is to use the software. That
> way the efforts of people like DJ don't go to waste.

OpenWatcom is indeed open source, and it's quite nice (multiple
targets from same host, small .EXEs, reasonable speed) although DJGPP
has various advantages (LFNs, faster output code, POSIX). If you want
16-bit DOS or any OS/2, Win3.x support (as well as Win32s or WinNT or
DOS32), it's the place to go. They're both quite good, obviously.

http://www.openwatcom.org
news://openwatcom.contributors
news://openwatcom.users.c_cpp
(also available on Google Groups)

> That being said, thank for your responce. I plan to install lots of
> different software.
> I'll add those to my list. I may need them. :)

I've got links to a billion DOS-related things on my site. It's meant
to be a one-stop list (albeit a bit messy) to find things (and be a
living bookmark, where I can easily click to see if something
updated). For instance, FreeDOS kernels, shells, tools, etc.
http://rugxulo.googlepages.com