From: mschulter AT  DOT value DOT net (M. Schulter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: unusual?
Date: 25 Aug 1997 00:11:09 GMT
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Joe Havelick (joe DOT h AT snet DOT net) wrote:
: Does anyone know why the Djgpp group is under the os.msdos group, I
: thought that os stood for operating system.

Hi, there, and please let me emphasize that this is not really an answer,
let alone an _official_ statement (that's up to DJ and other DJGPP
developers), just a quick opinion from one DJGPP user.

Basically I would say -- just for myself -- that DJGPP comes close to
being an OS in its own rights, and more specifically an implementation of
GNU tools in MS-DOS that I'm tempted to call DJGIX -- DJ's GNU *IX,
maybe).

First of all, DJGPP now includes ports of many major GNU UNIX-like
utilities for all-around computing as well as development and compiling:
the textutils, fileutils, diffutils, idutils, bash, less, and so on. Also,
it includes GNU Emacs, which has been called just about an OS in its own
right <grin>.

Also, one really neat feature of DJGPP I'm just now discovering: GAS, the
GNU assembler, that actually makes it possible to learn and use i-386
assembly language in MS-DOS using the classic UNIX-like AT&T syntax. It's
fair to caution here that GAS is designed especially to process output
from GCC, and so people writing their own assembler need to be a bit
cautious about debugging <grin> -- but still, a great feature that brings
DJGPP users closer to UNIX style.

In short, DJGPP covers most of the territory of an OS, and it runs in
MS-DOS -- so I find the newsgroup name just about right.

Most respectfully,

Margo Schulter
mschulter AT value DOT net