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From:	"Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
Organization:	INTI
To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com, pjfarley AT banet DOT net
Date:	Tue, 1 Sep 1998 11:50:07 +0000
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Subject:	Re: Midnight commander: any port?
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 1 Sep 1998, Peter J. Farley III wrote:
> 
> > >   As DJGPP creates 32 bit DPMI applications You'll be NOT able to run
> > >   any 16 bit DPMI application (e.g Borland C++ 3.1 IDE or something else)
> > >   from it
> > 
> > Well, when we get it built clean enough to run, I guess we'll have to
> > deal with that issue.
> 
> There's nothing new in this problem.  The same limitation exists if
> you use Bash, or RHIDE, or Emacs, or any other DJGPP program to launch
> other applications.
> 
> Who needs to run 16-bit DPMI programs, anyway? ;-)

I agree with Eli, after all the djgpp idea is to port the GNU tools to DOS, 
you can do all the normal stuff using djgpp tools. Why run BC++ 3.1?  or the 
protected mode TASM, use RHIDE and NASM ;-)

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