From: John Covici <covici AT ccs DOT covici DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP under Windows 2000
Date: 28 Jun 2001 08:46:04 -0400
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So how do I get this patch and if its a gcc patch to what gcc compiler
does it apply?  If I use it do I have to compile everything again?

Thanks much.

dnelson AT emsphone DOT com (Dan Nelson) writes:

> "Mark Stephen Krueger" <mkrueger AT nvidia DOT com> wrote in message news:<00b801c0feb5$3e212870$26df10ac AT speakeasy DOT net>...
> > From Eli Zaretskii:
> > > I don't recommend to use DJGPP on W2K anyway: there are several nasty
> > > problems that will make your life miserable.
> >
> > I have found djgpp to work quite well under W2K with the W2K patch.  It only
> > seems to crash on programs that I did not recompile.  It is a royal pain to
> > setup though because you have to rebuild everything you use from sources.
> > It seems like some things only build well under DOS, and others only build
> > well under Win9X, so I had to do a lot of stuff to get everything I wanted
> > built.  It will be great when the fix is put in and all the packages are
> > rebuilt so they can just be downloaded and installed.
> 
> I haven't had any major problems on w2k either.  The only annoying one
> is the rename() routine doesn't work on 8.3-only network shares
> anymore; it tries to rename oldfile -> X$$djren$$.$$temp$$ -> newfile,
> and where win98 simply truncated the long name, w2k makes the call
> fail.  The quick fix is to hexedit X$$djren$$.$$temp$$ to
> X$$djren.tmp.  The long fix is to change the source in 
> libc/ansi/stdio/_rename.c and rebuild libc.
> 
>   -Dan Nelson
>   dnelson AT emsphone DOT com

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