From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DJGPP under WinNT?
Date:	Fri, 07 Nov 1997 08:38:25 +0000
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Daniel Taupin wrote:
> 
> But we have troubles making them run (even a simple thing like unzip386)
> in the MSDOS window of WinNT.
> 
> 1. Is this a known "feature"?
> 
> 2. Is their a bypass, or a Win95 distribution of DJGPP?
> 
> Please: reply ALSO to me, not only to the list (I'm off list due to
> overcrowding messages). Thanks.

The question is, what are you doing that isn't working?  DJGPP should
run well under Windows NT's MS-DOS box; there are only a few things that
you can't do in it.  For detailed information about what does and does
not work under NT, read chapter 3.3 of the DJGPP FAQ list
(v2/faq210b.zip from SimTel or online at
http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/).

One of the major things that trips up NT users is that the long filename
API is not supported in NT's DOS box, so if any of your DJGPP programs
are trying to do anything with long filenames, they may fail.

For more specific answers, you should describe _exactly_ what goes wrong
(what programs did you run, what version were they, EXACT copies of the
error messages if any, what your NT DOS box settings are, etc.).  We
aren't mind readers here.

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