Date: Thu Jun 17 14:44:28 1993
From: grw AT tamu DOT edu
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re:  gccdpmi1.zip on omnigate

Folks,

	On Wed, 16 Jun 93 22:00:12 EDT, Animesh Karna <karna AT pobox DOT upenn DOT edu>
appears to have written:

> I've just uploaded a little something called gccdmpi1.zip onto omnigate,
> in the djgpp/pub directory.  This is a DOS extender for DPMI systems
> (note that it REQUIRES a DPMI host be present).  It was designed for emx,
> but it has instructions and stuff for getting it to work with djgpp.  It
> struck me that, to test compatibility with djgpp, I would probably need to
> recompile the whole djgpp compiler, so I haven't had a chance to try it
> out (any takers?).  Apparently, on most DPMI hosts, it supports floating
> point emulation.  I haven't the faintest idea as to whether djgpp-compiled
> programs will still require 4-megs.

	I posted a message to this mailing list last Fri asking about
this very thing, with no response that I have seen.  For those of you who
don't know, RSXDJ is basically a replacement for go32 and ld (DPMI only).
You do not have to recompile the whole compiler, but you do have to re-link
it if you want it to use RSXDJ.  You don't have to do anything to the
compiler if all you want to do is run *your* programs, then you just re-link
them.

	I think that go32 is much better than RSXDJ in some ways, namely
its stability.  RSXDJ is vastly superior to go32 in others (namely it does
not heave 4 megabytes of swap space down the toilet for each instance of
itself).  I have floating point, so I have no knowledge of the floating point
emulation of either.

	I for one am very interested in this program, and would love to
talk with anyone who tries it, although perhaps this is not the appropriate
forum.  I have also been succesful exchanging email with it's author.

		George R. Welch
		grw AT tamu DOT edu