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From: "Gisle Vanem" <gvanem AT eunet DOT no>
To: <djgpp AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: Untrapping Ctrl-C in DJGPP
Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 12:18:12 +0100
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From: Esa A E Peuha <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi> said:


>You can use even djgpp programs: first a slightly modified djgpp stub,
>then the PE executable, _then_ the djgpp COFF image.
>
>Now that I think about it, you might even be able to make a dual
>DOS/Windows program that shares most of its code in both environments:
>first the aforementioned real-mode stub that loads a COFF stub, then PE
>stub that loads the actual COFF image and provides necessary interface
>to native Windows system calls, then the COFF stub that also loads the
>actual COFF image and provides interface to DPMI and DOS calls, then the
>actual COFF image which runs on both DOS and Windows and uses the
>interface provided by the stub for system calls.  Now wouldn't _that_
>be nice? ;-)


Isn't that what EMX does, but only for OS/2? Platform dependant code is 
loaded from .dll-files. emx.exe/emx.dll is used in plain DOS, OS/2 system 
dll's when running under OS/2.

Gisle V.