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> Well, this is the most important outcome of the experiment to me. ;-)
> It shows that it is possible build binutils from the distributed DJGPP port
> for other people than me.  Neither less it remains a fact that it is necessary
> to have some kind of Windows OS.  All my intents to use plain DOS (aka either
> DOS 7 from Win98SE or MSDOS 6.22 or FreeDOS) have miserably failed.  The worst
> seems to be FreeDOS but in the end they all fail and are useless.  Here a lot of work needs to be done if plain DOS shall still be of some use to compile contemporary GNU software.
I haven't tried compiling any of this stuff, but I can compile larger 
projects OK under DOS 7 but doslfn usually has to exist and you'll want 
your file handles to be set rather high (I usually set like FILES=100) 
for it to compile OK.

Frank