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Re: KA9Q/DJGPP source available...

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From: Robert Mortimer
Date: Thu, 11 Dec 1997 00:00
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previously Roger Burton West <roger@firedrake.avertspam.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>DJGPP source for the latest KA9Q (not with Demon extensions, of course)
>is available at http://people.qualcomm.com/karn/ . May I respectfully

It has been for a while, and suffers from the slight drawback, as with
anything compiled by DJGPP, in that it won't run on sub 386's.
Personally this would render it less useful to myself and less widely
useful generally IMHO.

>suggest that this would be an _ideal_ code base for future upgrades? No
>more shell-memory problems; long filenames if run under Win95...

Long filenames are available under OpenDOS on any 8x86 machine.
/* well at least the 8086, 8088 and 80286 I've tried it on */
-- 
RobertM
Demon Internet Ltd
            "Trust the computer the computer is your fiend"
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From: robm@desade.noc.demon.net (Robert Mortimer)
Subject: Re: KA9Q/DJGPP source available...
Date: 1997/12/11
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