From: dunkelzan AT geocities DOT com (Paul Szuch)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Forgive my ignorance, but can someone answer a question for me?
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 05:30:48 GMT
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On Sun, 16 Feb 1997 00:34:16 GMT, twilliams AT sales DOT ispi DOT net (Tim 
If I am correct so far, wouldn't that mean that gcc applications
>written for Unix systems could be compiled under DOS using djgpp? 
>If so, what is the extent?  Could I compile X Windows under DOS, for
>instance?  
Yup I seem to remember you can get _most_ applications runnning under
DOS in this way. I don't think fork() works though, so any application
that uses fork() will work. It also takes some effort to port apps
sometimes becase of / vs \ and other things.