X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f
From: Andrew Cottrell <spam AT bigpond DOT com DOT au>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: problem with DJGPP/Allegro
Date: Sun, 14 Sep 2003 16:44:01 +1000
Organization: HOME
Message-ID: <1s28mvke42rdc7atbeqdb1ag48i2nsqdj5@4ax.com>
References: <7ik4mvoqkj8fdadd147af1bt996j8usop1 AT 4ax DOT com> <1so4mvsaobe6mn0hukhs0eek9n2cvbhtc3 AT 4ax DOT com> <e5q4mvg3a3hleq6ojjs3mvuom411o1s8e6 AT 4ax DOT com> <xnbrtpa1jg DOT fsf AT delorie DOT com> <c515mv4dujrmr2aek8i9qg6l916ljidi47 AT 4ax DOT com> <4b25mvg2dmle58u9dfqccv1fcbekot7eh3 AT 4ax DOT com>
X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 1.93/32.576 English (American)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Lines: 24
NNTP-Posting-Date: 14 Sep 2003 14:44:02 WST
NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.154.115.197
X-Trace: 1063521842 news.swiftel.com.au 13257 202.154.115.197
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

>My thanks to both Andrew and DJ Delorie without whose comments I would
>not have noticed this oddity, and would still probably be threatening
>to disembowel my computer with a pair of tweezers. 
You mentioned that you are using XP. So far it looks like you have not
found any of the other problems with running some of the old programs
on XP.

I would advise that you grab the 2.04 alpha release as it works allot
better on XP. One small piece of advise is that you do not mix 2.03
and 2.04 files unless you can trace down symlink issues as 2.04 can
call 2.03 symlink's, but the other way does not work and will have you
scratching your head allot more than the problem you just resolved.

If you do want to use the 2.04 then please read the info at the
following two sites:-
http://www.phekda.freeserve.co.uk/richdawe/djgpp/2.04/status204.html
http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main.htm

I will be releassing an update at the 2.04 test page (
http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/win2k/main_204.htm ) for the fileutils
which solves a problem with deleting directories in the next few days
after I do some more regression builds.

Andrew