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Date: Tue, 04 May 1999 16:56:38 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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Subject: Re: compiling
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Guillermo Rodriguez Garcia wrote:
> 
> El día Sun, 2 May 1999 11:32:56 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii
> <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> escribió:
> 
> >
> >On Sat, 1 May 1999, Alexander_Pankov wrote:
> >
> >> How to compile with DJGPP exe without extender?
> >
> >DJGPP-compiled programs don't include any extender.
> 
> What is go32, then?
> 
> DJGPP compiled programs don't use an *external * extender (like dos4gw
> and others), but they use go32, which is itself a built-in DOS
> extender.

Not in v2.x, they don't.

go32 was indeed a DOS extender, used for v1.x.  It could be "internal"
(merged with the executable) or "external" (a separate file), but was
always needed.  In v2.x it is gone; all protected-mode stuff is handled
through DPMI.

There are still some functions with `_go32' names for historical
reasons, but they're now implemented in terms of DPMI, and go32.exe is
gone.

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Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com