From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles W. Sandmann)
Subject:	DJGPP and Windows (fwd)
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)
Date:	Tue, 1 Jun 1993 20:00:21 -0600 (CDT)

Forwarded message:
> Date: Tue, 1 Jun 93 18:14:40 EDT
> From: boutell AT isis DOT cshl DOT org (Major Tom)
> Subject: DJGPP and Windows
> 
> Congratulations to all involved in bringing 1.10 into being. It's great to
> hear that this version supports DPMI, and thus operation under Windows.

You are welcome from this end.

> A question, though, to which the answer is almost certainly no, but which
> can stand raising nonetheless: is it at least possible to write an
> actual Windows GUI application with this version of DJGPP? (That is,
> clearly no one has created libraries to explicitly support this, but
> are there still major theoretical barriers to doing so?)

Ah, the third time I have been asked this (item #1 for 1.11 FAQ).  I haven't
looked enough at the mechanisms for launching Win applications to know how
it works.  Are there any programs which run from a "DOS" window and bring
up a Win display?  Or does Windows key off of a different EXE header format?
In any case, nothing is impossible (GO32 under 0.9 shows that) it just takes
lots of time to figure it out and write the libraries...

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