From: dscott AT networkusa DOT net (SCOTT19U.ZIP_GUY)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die
Date: Wed, 08 Sep 1999 21:23:59 GMT
Organization: Retired Electronic Engineer and  Y2K expert
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In article <8D53104ECD0CD211AF4000A0C9D60AE301648DBF AT probe-2 DOT acclaim-euro DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com wrote:
>Andris Pavenis writes:
>>>> I find the Linux DOSEMU program does a much better job of 
>>>> running djgpp programs than an NT dos box
>>
>> Thing I don't like is absence of support of LFN on drives 
>> accessed using LREDIR. I think it could be rather difficult 
>> when DOSEMU have full access to partition, but it could be
>> possible easier when LREDIR is being used
>
>I actually started trying to add this support at one point, but got
>distracted by other things before I got as far as any useful code.
>It didn't seem like it would be especially hard to do, though: the
>code isn't too horrific, and most of the work would probably be
>just to remove all the stuff that LREDIR does to make Linux
>partitions look like a DOS filesystem. I would certainly be very
>happy if someone could implement this!
>
>
>        Shawn Hargreaves.

 I would like to go to Linux on my next machine. But I don't
want to lose all the code I have written for DGJPP GNU 
for example. Will my code for my encryption program
scott19u run on Linux as is. FOR that matter will
the code compile on Linux?




David A. Scott
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