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Date: Mon, 05 Jan 1998 11:00:43 -0200
To: bakir <tbakir AT worldnet DOT att DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Cesar Scarpini Rabak <csrabak AT dce03 DOT ipt DOT br>
Subject: Re: octave2.09 (matlab clone) for djgpp ??
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At 00:49 02/01/98 -0600, bakir wrote:
>can octave be compiled for dos ??
>i think it will be valuable to get a port even if the graphics functions
>dont work...
>there is already a win95 port using the cygnus compiler/tools
>
>
I had a chat with John W. Eaton about this some months ago. 
His views are that the effort to doing it was not worth of it.

On the technical side, it would be necessary to make all the filenames 8.3
"clean" to be able to compile in a plain MS-DOS machine. And this is the
first step...

Here, the energy to do this port was directed to other chores after the
John's e-mail (I was a losing vote...!).
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