From: dnelson AT emsphone DOT com (Dan Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP under Windows 2000
Date: 27 Jun 2001 11:07:34 -0700
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"Mark Stephen Krueger" <mkrueger AT nvidia DOT com> wrote in message news:<00b801c0feb5$3e212870$26df10ac AT speakeasy DOT net>...
> From Eli Zaretskii:
> > I don't recommend to use DJGPP on W2K anyway: there are several nasty
> > problems that will make your life miserable.
>
> I have found djgpp to work quite well under W2K with the W2K patch.  It only
> seems to crash on programs that I did not recompile.  It is a royal pain to
> setup though because you have to rebuild everything you use from sources.
> It seems like some things only build well under DOS, and others only build
> well under Win9X, so I had to do a lot of stuff to get everything I wanted
> built.  It will be great when the fix is put in and all the packages are
> rebuilt so they can just be downloaded and installed.

I haven't had any major problems on w2k either.  The only annoying one
is the rename() routine doesn't work on 8.3-only network shares
anymore; it tries to rename oldfile -> X$$djren$$.$$temp$$ -> newfile,
and where win98 simply truncated the long name, w2k makes the call
fail.  The quick fix is to hexedit X$$djren$$.$$temp$$ to
X$$djren.tmp.  The long fix is to change the source in 
libc/ansi/stdio/_rename.c and rebuild libc.

  -Dan Nelson
  dnelson AT emsphone DOT com