Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 09:53:50 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Sun, 17 Dec 2000, dragonsong wrote:

> I'm not sure why you'd need to use djgpp for Win2k or NT. Just like you
> said, these operating systems no longer support true 16-bit DOS. (Thank
> God.) Why would you want a compiler for a 16-bit environment when your OS is
> native 32-bit?
[snip]
> I'm probably missing something really obvious here...?

Like the fact that DJGPP is a 32-bit compiler which produces 32-bit
programs, perhaps?