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List:       freedos-dev
Subject:    Re: Announcements.
From:       Peter Schneider <peter.schneider () danet ! de>
Date:       1996-07-31 15:19:28
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At 10:59 31.07.1996 -0400, G Sumner Hayes wrote:

>I don't really know a whole lot about this end of things, but what's
>wrong with the Gnu C compiler, gcc?  DOS support is included (djgpp)
>courtesy of D. J. Delorie.  There actually is a big problem I know of,
>which is that it uses a DOS extender by default.  How big a problem is
>that and does anyone know if it can be turned off or not?

That's a very big problem. It cannot be turned off and thus cannot be
used on 8088. I am sorry about this, too.

BTW: The christian name of Mr. Delorie is DJ (yes, it is!). He states
that every other spelling is incorrect (cf. <http://www.delorie.com/???>)

Kind regards,

Peter Schneider

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