From: pete <pete AT p-smith DOT co DOT uk>
Subject: Re: portability problems
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Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2003 16:02:31 +0000
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Andrew Cottrell wrote:

>>I have a small program which i'm attempting to port from unix to dos. I
>>installed Windows on a spare machine along with djgpp (2.03), and luckily
>>it didn't take much editing to get it running.
>>
>>I sent it to a couple of friends (running Win 2000 also), but it just
>>hangs for them, apparently doing nothing. If anyone can shed any light it
>>would be much appreciated.

> The main reason for it not working on 2K/XP:
> On 2K and XP MS have allot of low level incompatabilities. Some one of
> these critical issues have been fixed in the DJGPP 2.03 releases last
> year.
> 

Actually, it compiled and ran fine on my win2000 machine - It was when I 
sent the exe to others (also using win2000) that it hung

> Two solutions:-
> 1) Make sure you are using the latest DJDEV203.ZIP from Simtel (should
> be 10-Aug-2002 or later when/if one is released)
> 2) Grab the DJGPP 2.04 WIP from the following URL and read about the
> W2K/XP issues found and make sure you read the pages carefully:
> http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main.htm
> 

It's 2.03 I have at the moment, but I'm just waiting for ftp.clio.rice.edu 
to come back up with a view to trying 2.04. I had a good read through the 
2k/xp page, but non of the issues seemed directly releavent.

Thanks

pete