Re: [Freedos-devel] DJGPP on FreeDOS LiveCDs

2005-08-29 Thread Wesley Parish
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 03:21, Blair Campbell wrote: snip Is OpenWatcom's DOS compiler 16-bit DPMI too? No. Openwatcom is only capable of producing straight 16-bit apps or 32-bit DPMI apps. I'm wondering, does anyone have a set of test apps that can test the comparative performances of the

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Chasing MS-DOS compatibility

2005-08-29 Thread David O'Shea
Hi Bernd, Having all of my notes on a web page that everyone can see, and using a tool which is very quick to edit those nodes so that I am more likely to keep them up-to-date, will be of great benefit to everyone when I suddenly disappear from the community :) But the page doesn't

Re: [Freedos-devel] Mkzftree.exe

2005-08-29 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Blair Campbell schreef: There was an outdated mkzftree.exe compiled, so I updated it to 1.06. If anyone wants it, e-mail me. BTW, if anyone doesn't know what mkzftree is, it is a tool to work with zisofs trees. and if anyone doesn't know what zisofs trees are? Anyway, to my knowledge it's

Re: [Freedos-devel] re: Chasing MS-DOS compatibility

2005-08-29 Thread Bernd Blaauw
David O'Shea schreef: Fixed, I put a download link for the existing releases on there and mentioned that they are pretty much identical to what is in CVS. I also put an alpha version on there which is my code in its current state which I think is not too bad.. not too bad at all, indeed.

Re: [Freedos-devel] DJGPP on FreeDOS LiveCDs

2005-08-29 Thread Alain
IMHO, both are needed: DJGPP is perfect for compiling Unix tools. Openwatcom is very good for new or simple programs. Porting from Borland to OpenWatcom is ususaly not too dificult. I have a lib of functions for OW that contain all the screen functions, this is the worst part of converting.

Re: [Freedos-devel] DJGPP on FreeDOS LiveCDs

2005-08-29 Thread Alain
Wesley Parish escreveu: I'm wondering what the advantage of choosing any one particular C compiler over the rest, might be. (Admittedly, one major advantage of DJGPP and OpenWatcom is portability, which TurboC/C++ doesn't have; nobody's every ported BCC to anything other than a *DOS that

[Freedos-devel] re: DJGPP on FreeDOS LiveCDs

2005-08-29 Thread Eric Auer
Hi, adding to the wishlist... IMHO, both are needed: DJGPP is perfect for compiling Unix tools. Openwatcom is very good for new or simple programs. DJGPP is good for tools which would suffer from the usual real mode limitations (only little memory reachable directly / usual pointer trickery