Date: Wed, 5 Jun 1996 19:23:28 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Carl J R Johansson <cjjohans AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: File sharing?
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On Wed, 5 Jun 1996, Carl J R Johansson wrote:

> This message has not shown up on my news
> server, so my response won't go there either.

I use the mailing list that's gated into the newsgroup.
> No, DJGPP does indeed work perfectly from _my_ point of view here, the 
> program quietly sets ALL the files, I can't even delete them from a 
> DOS-prompt while it's running. And when I check their attributes from 
> Windows it reports read-only until the program terminates.

Then VC++ is either buggy or unnecessarily picky.

> applications? I strongly suspect that my VC++ (1.5) is quite obsolete, and 
> doesn't even support the kind of file sharing Windows 95 uses.

Quite possible.  Win95 uses 32-bit file access that completely bypasses 
DOS in its file operations, so it might be that VC++ is trying to do 
something based on its intimate knowledge of DOS/Win3.x that isn't true 
for Win95 anymore.

> just wanted to confirm this, and of course it's a long shot to initially 
> accuse an established commercial compiler of bugs/features where a free 
> compiler excels.

My experience shows that many commercial compilers have much more bugs 
than DJGPP.  And of course with DJGPP (or any free software) you can just 
find the problem in the sources and recompile it.