Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/01/27/20:54:24
Ralph Proctor wrote:
>
> At 03:15 PM 1/26/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >
> >> I don't think DOSEMU is a operating system, is it?
> >
> >DOSEMU is a dos emulator. It gives you a "dos box" under Linux, much
> >like the dos boxes in Windows 9x or NT.
> >
> >> DOSEMU is the main reason I would always have to have DOS in addtion
> >> to a Linux system because I want to program with DJGPP without
> >> having to use it--I'd rather not use an emulator for that purpose.
> >
> >Why not run djgpp under dosemu?
>
> 1. I've gotten so used to djgpp under DOS.
> 2. Thinking maybe I'll have problems.
>
> DJ: Would I get the same quality and trouble-freeness if I ran DJGPP and
> it's associated
> programs and utilities exclusively with Linux? Hey that would be great!!!
> I
> just assumed
> the best way would be to only use Linux for the GUI and online interfaces
> and stick with
> DOS for C.
GCC and friends originated under Unix, so they will work even better (if
such a thing is possible :). I now do most of my programming under
Linux, and it's quite nice that things that are accomplished under DOS
only in hackish ways work natively (`fork', for instance, and `pipe').
> Honestly, I don't have a reason from experience. Are some of the DJGPP
> programmers
> using DOSEMU with success? I just assumed they were experimenting with it.
DOSEMU works very well. There was a subtle DPMI bug in DOSEMU 0.98.1
that would make DJGPP programs crash infrequently, but it may well have
been fixed. I haven't yet installed a later version. (I also had a
Cyrix CPU then in which I since identified several bugs, so that could
be related as well...) Other than that, it's easily as useful as real
DOS.
--
Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com
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