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From: "Hilton Fernandes" <hfernandes AT mail DOT geocities DOT com>
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Date: Mon, 11 Aug 1997 03:53:23 +0000
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Subject: The is world dropping MS-DOS.  What about DJGPP? (Was Re: Quake 
CC: Hilton Fernandes <hfernandes AT mail DOT geocities DOT com>
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Hi!

The discussion about Quake II was an irresistible plug to a question
that i wanted to ask a long time ago.

DJGPP is the best and most complete implementation of GNU tools
outside UNIX.  It is a development environment so good that even its
newsgroup is nice, full of kind and generous persons.

However, a terrible ghost is getting closer to this technical
treasure: slowly but firmly Microsoft is managing to bring MS-DOS
into oblivion.  And the new incarnations of its operating systems --
Win NT and Win 98 -- seem to make increasingly difficult the
execution of MS-DOS programs.

So, the question is: where will the legacy of djgpp go when MS-DOS is
finished?  What should be the plan?  Try to migrate to OpenDOS? 

This is a sad but important question to all of djgpp community.


Best regards,
++Hilton 
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