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In article <881886281snz@wash.demon.co.uk>
           john$@wash.demon.co.uk "John Washington" wrote:

>On 11 Dec, in article
>     <slrn68ujte.qs4.robm@desade.noc.demon.net> robm@demon.net
>     "Robert Mortimer" wrote:
>
>RM> It has been for a while, and suffers from the slight drawback, as with
>RM> anything compiled by DJGPP, in that it won't run on sub 386's.
>
>OK, so that's a (dis)advantage of that compiler.  I've not seen
>that source, but is it reasonably std C?  If so, would it be
>a good base to take and add another 'make' file for BCC?

DJGPP was written explicitly as a port of Gnu C for DOS. In other words,
it's probably _more_ standard than BCC in most respects.

>No doubt there'd need to be some condit compile, e.g. ksubr.c
>is presumably rather different.  But do people think it would
>be much more than that?

This should certainly be doable. Personally, I should _very much_ like
to be able to compile under DJGPP _as well_ - because of the shell
memory issue, the long filename support, and so on.

Also... let's put it this way. I've written a bunch of game utility
programs that are available on my homepage (for a game that runs on any
PC with a VGA card). Each of them says in the documentation, "you need a
386; if you don't have one, get in touch". No-one has done so. Just how
big an issue is this? (I _am_ prepared to be convinced.)

>What is the 'Karn' source?  Is it really by the great man himself,
>and does he still have the time to make a good job of it?

The former, certainly; the latter, well, the archive I pulled is dated
12 August 96, so possibly not...

Cheers,

Roger (who is currently using Ian@isis' Yan, and is _very_ happy with
it...)

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