From: "Michael Stewart" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: DJGPP: the future is... ? Date: Tue, 6 Apr 1999 22:13:30 +0100 Organization: Customer of Planet Online Message-ID: <7edtd9$vfm$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk> References: <199903260517 DOT AAA32193 AT envy DOT delorie DOT com> <36FBE6A6 DOT D1407A64 AT cableol DOT co DOT uk> <6y0O2.2463$MB3 DOT 4117 AT newsfeeds DOT bigpond DOT com> NNTP-Posting-Host: modem-26.manganese.dialup.pol.co.uk X-Trace: news7.svr.pol.co.uk 923433192 32246 62.136.12.26 (6 Apr 1999 21:13:13 GMT) NNTP-Posting-Date: 6 Apr 1999 21:13:13 GMT X-Complaints-To: abuse AT theplanet DOT net X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Lines: 22 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Johan Venter wrote in message <6y0O2.2463$MB3 DOT 4117 AT newsfeeds DOT bigpond DOT com>... >I just got to say, this thread is scary. I never even thought of the >possibility that when microsoft leave DOS behind permanently, it will be >difficult to keep DJGPP alive. I, for one, will stick with DJGPP till the >end (which is, hopefully, not too soon), and if microsoft stop supporting >DOS altogether then we, as the users of DJGPP will be the renegade computer >users that microsoft fights to aboloish. > >The answer? Well, if we could only get a hold of the DOS source >code......:-).....no, hold on, that won't happen, not with ms as the >captain. Take a look at www.freedos.org ;-) -- Michael Stewart mike AT reggin DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk "Just because you're paraniod doesn't mean they aren't after you..."