Date: Sun, 14 Nov 1999 11:55:43 +0200 (IST)
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On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Andris Pavenis wrote:

> Therefore I choosed to simulate bootstrapping by calling different parts
> from bat file (each part is small enough not to crash under Win9X DPMI
> server and that helped also to workaround absence of symbolic links).

What is the meaning of ``bootstrapping'' when we are talking about a 
system that doesn't have any compiler but (a previous version of) GCC?

How is this ``boostrapping'' different from a simple build for DJGPP?

> 	Doing it under NT. At least when I last tried with LFN TSR from
> 	Andrew Crabtree it didn't work. Maybe in future...

NT leaks descriptors as well, although slightly slower.  It also leaks 
DOS memory, so after a while you get "Load error: no DOS memory".

Maybe Windows 2K?...  Yeah, right, keep dreaming...