From: "M. Schulter" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: When in Rome... Date: 10 Apr 1998 23:16:11 GMT Organization: Value Net Internetwork Services Inc. Lines: 46 Message-ID: <6gm97r$r6t$2@vnetnews.value.net> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: value.net To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Eli Zaretskii wrote: : On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Edward F. Sowell wrote: : > See my earlier remarks. Perhaps I am wrong, but I don't believe that : > that porting software to another platform means converting that platform : > to Unix. : I just suggested it as an easier solution, which will surely work. If you : have grave reasons not to do that, it is quite possible that you won't : need to, eventually. Hello, there. Just to express another point of view, please let me say that as a user of MS-DOS for seven years before I discovered DJGPP, I _love_ the way that Eli and others have made it possible for DOS to emulate many of the great features of UNIX. Originally I got the GNU File Utilities (not back then quite yet a part of DJGPP itself) in order to compile GNU Emacs, but soon I discovered how useful they were for lots of things besides making makefiles run correctly. Other achievements include a 32-bit AT&T syntax assembler for DOS (DJGPP GAS) and GNU less -- one of the neatest improvements in the look, feel, and performance of a system that I have seen. There are also neat tools like djtar and the port of GNU tar, very helpful for accessing tar-format archives of various kinds available on the Internet. BTW, I wonder if the term "Wintel" applies to an Intel system running DOS but not Windows, or should that maybe be called a "Dostel" system . This doesn't, of course, mean that DJGPP is an ideal solution for every application of every user. However, for some DOS users, a "UNIX look and feel" is one of the big pluses of DJGPP. If DJGPP stimulates alternative approaches and solutions for users and applications which may work better under some less "Unixy" model, that would also be an achievement. Most respectfully, Margo Schulter mschulter AT value DOT net