To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Forgive my ignorance, but can someone answer a question 
	for me?
Message-ID: <19970216.130542.8487.2.chambersb@juno.com>
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From: chambersb AT juno DOT com (Benjamin D Chambers)
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 1997 16:03:31 EST


On Sun, 16 Feb 1997 05:30:48 GMT dunkelzan AT geocities DOT com (Paul Szuch)
writes:
>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.

Actually, djgpp treats both / and \ identically.  However, multitasking
is not present under dos, so that can cause problems.  Also, you'd have
to find ports of all the libraries used.

...Chambers