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From: Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: The Future of DJGPP
Date: Tue, 05 Sep 2000 22:36:44 +0100
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Hello.

Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> Richard Dawe wrote:
> 
> >As you say, it giveth with one hand (LFN) and taketh with the other
> >(nested exec). Maybe this problem will be cracked one day?
> 
> It'll be cracked for purposes of running make -> gcc -> cpp as soon
> as someone builds a Cygwin or MinGW hosted cross-DJGPP.

Perhaps it would be beneficial to make DJGPP interoperate with these
programs better for the future?

> Cracked in general?  Not likely.  That's one of the 65,535 bugs in
> Windows 2000 that DOS programs can't just patch around.

How can you be so sure? I mean, does it really appear that there's no way
round the bug?

Hmmm, 65535 - does their database use 16-bits for the bug numbers?

> I wonder what the procedure to submit a bug report to Microsoft is?

<SARCASM>Construct an email, print it out, find a wastebin, throw it in
the bin.</SARCASM>

Alternative answer: Find someone in development in Microsoft who cares and
ask them about it. If you do not know of such a person, tough luck.

Bye,

-- 
Richard Dawe
[ mailto:richdawe AT bigfoot DOT com | http://www.bigfoot.com/~richdawe/ ]