Message-ID: <8D53104ECD0CD211AF4000A0C9D60AE3016372C9@probe-2.acclaim-euro.net>
From: Shawn Hargreaves <ShawnH AT Probe DOT co DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die.
Date: Tue, 7 Sep 1999 15:14:12 +0100 
MIME-Version: 1.0
X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1460.8)
Content-Type: text/plain
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Nate Eldredge writes:
> Incidentally, how many people here use DJGPP at work (authorized or
> unauthorized)?

I do, quite heavily. It isn't directly related to our actual work, which
is writing console games using a gcc cross-compiler, but I use the djgpp
versions of make, sed, perl, etc, and build most of my data converters
and utility programs with it (user interface tools tend to be Windows
programs written with MSVC, though).

Nobody here had come across djgpp before I joined the company, but it is
interesting to see how quickly people get used to having software that
works properly. After a few months of using a decent make program, none
of my colleagues would put up with one of those horrible DOS things with 
all the stupid command length restrictions, 8.3 filenames, lack of 
response file support, etc. And Ash was most impressed when I recompiled 
his level converter (a data munging program that does a lot of heavy 
math and tree building work) using djgpp, and got a dramatic speed 
improvement over the original Watcom version...


	Shawn Hargreaves.