Date:	Wed, 8 May 1996 00:11:44 -0800 (GMT)
From:	"Rafael R. Sevilla" <rsevilla AT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To:	david AT johnhamp DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
cc:	DJGPP Mail Server <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject:	Re: DOS4GW
Message-ID:	<Pine.SOL.3.91.960507235452.16305A-100000@sauron>
MIME-Version:	1.0

Nope, DOS4GW is none of the above. DOS4GW is Rational Systems' DOS/4G DOS
Extender stub executable, which is used by the Watcom C/C++ 32-bit
compilers among others. Well, it was used by Doom, Dark Forces, and many
other 32-bit commercial and shareware games, and it's copyrighted like
hell. In that you are very right. The royalties necessary for distributing
software that uses it are murderous to say the least. And of course, the
answer is it will probably _never_ be supported by djgpp. And from my
experiences developing under this system, it falls short in many respects
compared to the DPMI that is used by djgpp. For one thing, there's no
virtual memory (!), and there's that stupid DOS/4GW runtime message that
shows up whenever you run these programs (as anyone who's ever played Doom
knows)! And running DOS/4GW programs under Windows DOS boxes is an iffy
proposition at best. 

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University of the Philippines                           Rafael R. Sevilla
PABX/OVCA: Diliman Networking Project          rsevilla AT sauron DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph
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