From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die.
Date: Mon, 6 Sep 1999 19:23:30 +0200
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On Mon, 6 Sep 1999, Endlisnis wrote:

>     The only things that don't work under NT are SVGA and LFN's (the latter of
> which could be fixed, but not trivially).  If LFN's are no longer available,
> DJGPP _might_ decide to stop supporting them and just use the 8.3 standard to
> make it work under Win2xxx or whatever.

NT has a lot of problems as a DJGPP platform.  Some are listed in the 
FAQ, but as more and more people begin using DJGPP on NT in the recent 
two years, we learn more and more about these problems.  The current 
draft of the next FAQ almost doubles the list of bugs, incompatibilities 
and other nasty aspects of NT wrt DJGPP.

For example, did you know you cannot catch SIGINT and SIGFPE on NT?  If 
you do, your program crashes, and the DrWatson log file clearly shows 
that it's an NT bug.