From: myknees AT aol DOT com (Myknees)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: newbie on DJGPP
Date: 29 Mar 1998 01:47:01 GMT
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In article <351D3634 DOT 4C53DA33 AT lund DOT mail DOT telia DOT com>, "ajak$"
<bring AT lund DOT mail DOT telia DOT com> writes:

>I know C/C++ but I am new on "GNU" "protected mode" "DMPI" etc.

If you have emacs you can find out things about GNU (stands for "GNU's Not
UNIX") by reading the GNU manifesto.  Type c-h and then c-p.  I'm sure there
are other ways to read it, but I don't know them.  

There is information about DPMI (note letter order) at DJ's web site:
www.delorie.com/djgpp/
...however, most of the advantages of protected mode are taken care of
already--i.e. a program compiled with djgpp will run in protected mode without
you writing any special code for that.  

All that is necessary is that there is a DPMI for your program.  Windows has
one, so if you are using DOS from Windows it is taken care of, and there is a
free one, CWSDPMI, available at DJ's web site, if you need to run your
protected mode program in regular DOS.

>Can someone tell me the best way to learn djgpp? I have made som gfx
>stuff
>in borlandC++ but when I look on a djgpp mode13 example it does not look
>
>the same at all ;) Please help me

Someone else might chime in.  I'm not sure what you mean.

--Ed (Myknees)