Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 11:56:51 EDT From: jes AT mbio DOT med DOT upenn DOT edu (Joe Smith) Posted-Date: Thu, 14 Jul 94 11:56:51 EDT To: flaregun AT strauss DOT udel DOT edu Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: Suggestions OK, I'm sure I'll be sorry for bring this up - but hey, you guys (generically speaking!) have seen me with my foot in my mouth before... Instead of bending over backward to do DOS-hosted development, wouldn't it make more sense to work on a first-class Linux-hosted environment where we'd have *all* the tools and they would just work and we could forget about long command lines, broken shells, skimpy filenames, hung systems... By 'first-class', I mean compiling to a go32 target executable and then running and debugging that executable under dosemu. I admit that I don't know what problems are keeping this from working now. I've heard that the 'i386-go32' target environemnt for gcc doesn't work entirely: the objects still need to be linked under DOS. And I have no idea whether dosemu can support (or be made to support) DPMI, but it seems like it should be possible. Anyway, it seems like that would be a more productive direction than trying to drag DOS into the 1980's. If the new go32 and GRX were available under Linux and/or dosemu, *that* would be *very* cool.