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Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 08:11:14 -0500
From: Joe Heafner <heafnerj AT interpath DOT com>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: can't find DJGPP header files in MingW32
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 3 Nov 1999, Gecko23 wrote:
> 
> > > I recently wrote some software that uses sys/param.h and in.h with
> > DJGPP. I
> >
> > Use the ones from DJGPP.
> 
> IMHO, this is bad advice.  One shouldn't use a header from another
> compiler, since the headers are private to the library implementation.
> 
> A better way would be to rewrite the program so that it doesn't use
> non-standard headers.  In particular, sys/param.h should not be used
> by anything but legacy Unix software.  Every symbol it defines has a
> modern and portable replacement.

Where would I find the replacements, or at least documentation on them?
This particular software can currently and MUST be able to compile under
DOS, Solaris, Linux, and OS/2 (Windows is included here as it's just
another DOS program) using EMX, DJGPP 2.8, and Visual C++. The source
code is commercial software that accompanies my forthcoming book. 

			Thanks,

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