Subj : Upgrading...
To   : Matt Mc_Carthy
From : Tobias Ernst
Date : Fri Oct 13 2000 02:00 pm

Hallo Matt!

 > Sometime in the not too distant future I might have to give up this 
 > good old DOS stuff and upgrade to Win ME.

 > What version would you recommend, the Win 32, or the NT?

You mean Dos32 or NT? I don't know, I have never used Win ME yet and have not 
got any reports. I did not even try Windows 2000. So just give it a try and 
report the results. Normally, the NT version should be the best recommendation, 
but I don't know how good or bad (in terms of speed) the ME variant of the 
Windows console API is.

 > Next, would this djgpp be able to compile those versions?

Djgpp compiles the DOS DPMI version (which will probably work under ME). In 
order to compile the NT version, you'd best use Borland C++ 4.x or 5.x, or 
Watcom C. The free compilers I have tried (mingw32 and rsxnt) all are able to 
compile the NT version of Msged, but all of them yield some strange problems 
that do not occure when using Borland C. I am also not happy about this 
situation (given that I can crosscompile the NT version with mingw or rsxnt, 
but have to boot Windows in order to use Borland C), but I have not yet found 
what the problem is.

Viele Gruesse,
Tobias

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