To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2001 06:43:29 -0800 Subject: Re: Me Message-ID: <20010330.134024.3878.1.vmccar@juno.com> References: <000c01c0b887$93075180$504cf9c1 AT ftihc3g7my> X-Mailer: Juno 1.49 X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 4-8,10-35 From: Vince D McCarthy MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by r1.boston.juno.com id QAAAA29519 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by delorie.com id SAA00461 Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Since I don't have Win ME at this time I was wondering if the config.sys and the autoexec.bat, if they have such a configuration setup, can be set up to select another operating system like Win 95/98 can. I have presently Win98 and that how I use most of my DOS programs without any problems through a operating selection mode. Vince McCarthy vmccar AT juno DOT com On 30 Mar 2001 11:36:50 GMT Hans-Bernhard Broeker writes: >Eric Trigance wrote: > >> Je débute en Langage C et j'ai donc téléchargé ce compilateur. Je >> voudrais savoir s'il fonctionne bien sous Windows Millenium. C'est >> en effet le système d'exploitation sur lequel je compte >> l'installer. N'ayant pas trop de connaissances approfondies, je >> préfère me renseigner avant d'effectuer l'installation. > >[For those of you who don't speak any French at all: he's asking >whether DJGPP works well on Win ME, so he can decide whether it's >worth trying to install it]. > >[Eric: I'll answer in English, for the benefit of all the others going >to read this...] > >DJGPP works in ME, but not as completely as on Win9x or 'real' DOS. >It almost seems like MS has a secret plan to subvert all efforts of >making DOS a useable platform for this kind of work: they keep >introducing new strange bugs in their DOS and DPMI services with every >new release of an OS. Currently, this means both Win ME and Win 2000 >can run DJGPP and the programs it generates, but have some bad little >quirks doing so. >-- >Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) >Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain. ________________________________________________________________ GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.