Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 07:49:40 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Joseph Morris <jpm AT it-he DOT org>
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Subject: Re: djgpp and Win2K
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On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Joseph Morris wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > 
> > Windows 2000 has problems with running nested DJGPP programs.  This
> > means that you will probably be unable to build programs by running
> > the Make utility.  Compilation from the command line does work.  Since
> > Bash is a DJGPP program, you might have problems with nesting levels
> > more than one.
> > 
> > Another problem reported on Windows 2000 is that `touch' (from
> > Fileutils) sometimes fails.
> > 
> > My advice would be not to upgrade if you can.
> 
> I presume this means that no-one has tried the service pack yet, or
> if so, it had a negative result?

I don't think anyone reported here any findings related to the service 
pack.  In fact, in many cases I don't even know whether people who 
reported problems had the SP installed.  So I guess the answer is we 
don't know.