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Date:      Mon, 5 May 1997 14:53:30 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>
To:        "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>
Cc:        emulation@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Report on DOSCMD
Message-ID:  <Pine.SUN.3.95.970505145254.12937A-100000@garcia.efn.org>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.A41.3.95.970505160555.16170B-100000@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>

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On Mon, 5 May 1997, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:

> On Mon, 5 May 1997, Jonathan Mini wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, 5 May 1997, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> > 
> > > 1) Being able to run pcemu-like apps without booting.
> > > 2) Being able to run dosemu-like (32-bits) apps when booting.
> > > For VM86:
> > > 1) Being able to run Minix-386 under VM86 (it runs in protected mode).
> > 
> > [I'm assuming that last 1 is a 3]
> >
> 
> [Not really, this is unrelated to doscmd] 
> 
> >   My own wish list is basically only one item -- running Watcom's compiler
> > and linker. It constantly annoys me to have to do things like makefiles in
> > DOS. (pipelines are a joke and that limit of 128 chars on a command line
> > is very disabling)
> >   If I can run BSD makefiles and unix utlilities such as cvs (for example)
> > and compile with Watcom, I will be a very happy camper. 
> > 
> FWIW, you will find some DOS crosscompilers on the ports tree: bcc and
> gcc-go32. I ported the latest: I don't use it, I don't care about it (I'm
> the worst maintainer on that stuff and everyone seems uninterested), but
> some cool things could be done with it, perhaps even testing the pgcc
> patches for crosscompiling. Perhaps you could even use Watcom's libraries
> with it.

No offense to the other compilers, but Watcom's compiler is far superior
ot any of them. I want Watcom, not a dos compiler. ;P

> 
> regards,
>  
> 	 Pedro.
> 

Jonathan Mini (j_mini@efn.org)

... Desolation ... Despair ... Plastic Forks ...




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