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From:	alex DOT soto AT analog DOT com (Alex Soto)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DOS4GW
Date:	08 May 1996 08:33:42 -0400
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In-reply-to:	"Rafael R. Sevilla"'s message of Wed, 8 May 1996 08:11:44 GMT
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>>>>> "Rafael" == "Rafael R Sevilla" <rsevilla AT upd DOT edu DOT ph> writes:

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

Put in your autoexec.bat:  set dos4g=quiet

Mystic
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