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From: "Roger S Gay" <gayr AT telusplanet DOT net>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Win 2000 and "forcedos"
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 21:59:14 -0600
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Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

Hi,
I just migrated to W2K a week ago, and am having no joy at all compiling cpp
pgms using gxx. No outputs, no error messages, no nothing ! gcc with -lstdcx
seems to work though.

Is this related to the topic of this thread (forcedos) in that gxx cannot
make the call to gcc?

I'm afraid I lurk in the djgpp newsgroup rather infrequently; my apologies
if this has come up before but I would appreciate a pointer to a prior
thread or workaround

TIA

Roger S Gay

----- Original Message -----
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 11, 2000 01:00 PM
Subject: Re: Win 2000 and "forcedos"


> > Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 13:09:18 -0400
> > From: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
> >
> > It's in the NT 4 help file and MSDN.  FORCEDOS disables the OS/2
> > subsystem (etc), forcing NT to run a program in a VDM even if NT
> > wouldn't normally have recognized the program as an MS-DOS program.
>
> Thanks for the info.
>
> > I'm not sure why this would solve the W2K nesting problem, though.
>
> I'm not sure; from your description it looks like it shouldn't.
> However, we won't lose anything if we try...