Mail Archives: djgpp/2001/03/05/12:10:35
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frans nagel <fransrn AT altavista DOT com> wrote:
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> Dear makers of a fantastic compiler that I love very much.How do we
> deal with Microsoft? First they throw out config.sys and autoexec.bat
> so that your compiler doesn't work ( I get an EINVAL error that i
> never get under windows98)
You don't need config.sys for DJGPP, and autoexec.bat is only one of
many ways of setting it up. For Win9x, you can just as easily create a
special shortcut to command.com with a 'startup batch file', into
which you can put the set DJGPP and PATH commands.
> and I hear that next they're going to get rid of DOS!
They're not getting rid of DOS, they just don't want it as the
basement for Windows 9x any more. I.e. ME moved one step further in
the direction of NT, where DOS runs on top of Windows, rather than the
other way round.
> What can we do about these bastards?I'm also unable to
> include ANSI.sys in my programs under windows ME so that my
> -platform-independent - programs suddenly aren't platform
> independent anymore because of Microsofts arrogance.
You don't really have to load MS's ANSI.SYS for anything, anyway.
There are much superior replacements like NNANSI that come as .COM
files, and can be loaded as TSR's from autoexec.bat or any other way
you like.
And of course, there is no such thing as a truly platform independent
program that needs ANSI.SYS to operate. Platform independent would
mean the programs use some library API (like, say, curses), and let
the implementation of that library deal with all the details.
--
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.
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