Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/02/24/16:11:03
Dominique Biesmans (Dominique DOT Biesmans AT ping DOT be) wrote:
: On Mon, 24 Feb 1997 11:52:08 GMT, Robert Humphris
: <r DOT humphris AT indigo-avs DOT com> wrote:
: >I have my doubts wether this is worth while though,as the extra messing
: >around, and the overheads that
: >windows causes would mean that many will have to start at the base of a
: >very steep learning curve that
: >just for a nice gui front end seems a little too much effort.
Adding to what Dominique said, it would be trivial to implement the
multitasking and piping which is on the DJGPP wish-list. Of course
the wish-list is referring to DOS multitasking and piping, and Cygnus'
gnu-win32 system can be and has been used to port Unix applications
requiring these features, with much success; I object, though, to
effectively forcing people to distribute sources, which is in my
opinion a personal decision.
--
George Foot <gfoot AT mc31 DOT merton DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
Merton College, Oxford.
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