Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1998 10:08:44 +0200 (WET)
From: Andris Pavenis <pavenis AT lanet DOT lv>
To: "Peter J. Farley III" <pjfarley AT banet DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Midnight commander: any port?
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On Sun, 30 Aug 1998, Peter J. Farley III wrote:

> pdasilvaX AT esotericaX DOT pt (Paulo da Silva) wrote:
> >Is there any port of gnu midnight commander to
> >MSDOS?
> >TIA
> 
> Paulo,
> 
> Not for DJGPP yet, but some of us are trying to port it to DJGPP at
> this very moment.  There is a cygwin port, I understand, if you want
> something right now.  Check the MC web page, at the url
> <http://www.gnome.org/mc/>, and go to the downloads page.
> 

There will be one serious problem with DJGPP port of mc if there will be
any:
   As DJGPP creates 32 bit DPMI applications You'll be NOT able to run
   any 16 bit DPMI application (e.g Borland C++ 3.1 IDE or something else)
   from it