From: "Damian Yerrick" <web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Question regarding CGI
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 13:23:59 -0500
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bub (bub AT null DOT videotron DOT ca) wrote:

bub> I couldn't find any references to CGI or problems related to it
bub> in the DJGPP FAQ.

Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:

hans> Off the top of my head, there's one main possibility: some of the
hans> 32bit Windows WWW servers have been reported to require CGIs to be
hans> *Windows* console applications. They refuse to run DOS programs, like
hans> the ones generated by DJGPP. That may be the cause of your problem.

Then rebuild everything with RSXNTDJ or MinGW32,
two Win32 ports of gcc.
Get RSXNTDJ at the Zip Picker; then
http://surf.to/rsxntdj to get it working.

But M$VC is compatible; it only took me a couple hours
to get even a DJGPP/Allegro program to work in M$VC.

bub> After comparing program outputs and finding they were exactly the same,
bub> I've decided that this appears to be the problem.
bub>
bub> Sifting through Microsoft's knowledge base, I found an article related
bub> to 16 bit executables and how they won't work.

M$ software thinks DJGPP executables are 16-bit
because their stubs are 16-bit.

bub> Though I am aware that djgpp executables are 32 bit, I performed
bub> MS's "test" (at least for this example), which consists of
bub> using Explorer | Properties for the file and seeing how many
bub> tabs there are. For 32 bit modules there should be 2 of them,
bub> more for 16 bit. Which is what my djgpp program shows.
bub>
bub> Upsetting. Maybe I should just use apache.

Apache is good. Micro$oft is bad.


Damian Yerrick
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