Date: Tue, 8 Jul 1997 09:57:03 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Lahaye Olivier <olivier DOT lahaye AT cea DOT fr>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Q: DJGPP ide Install problems winth NT4
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On 7 Jul 1997, Lahaye Olivier wrote:

> 4th: What is the difference between DJGPP/v2gnu/em1934*.zip and
> ntemacs?

v2gnu/em1934*.zip is a DOS program compiled with DJGPP.  NTEmacs is a
native Windows 9X/NT program compiled with MSVC++ which will only run
on Windows 9X/NT.

NTEmacs has the advantage of (1) having access to the Win32 GUI,
including OLE, fonts, networking (packages like RMAIL, GNUS, ange-ftp
etc. if you know what I'm talking about); and (2) it has support for
asynchronous subprocesses (but to utilize it, you will have to install
Win32 ports of all the programs you want to run asynchronously, since
DOS programs have a lot of limitations when run like that by NTEmacs).

A disadvantage of NTEmacs (and a major one at that, IMHO) is that
MSVC++ library sources aren't freely available, so if you encounter
bugs there, you are stuck.  If you look into the nt subdirectory of
Emacs sources, you will see that the people who ported Emacs to Win32
API ended up rewriting large portions of the library just to work
around such bugs.

Btw, I suggest that in future you split your questions into separate
messages, grouped by related issues.  It doesn't make much sense to
have a single thread about such unrelated subjects as RHIDE, RSXNTDJ
and Emacs.