[ale] DJGPP questions

[krwatson at cc.gatech.edu]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Ken
> Arromdee
> Sent: Sunday, November 30, 2008 12:29
> To: ale at ale.org
> Subject: Re: [ale] DJGPP questions
>
> On Sun, 30 Nov 2008, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> > > I think the solution is not to use djgpp.  I'm trying cygwin now...
> > Maybe, maybe not.  If you're looking to make 32-bit PM DOS binaries,
> > Cygwin probably isn't going to be of much assistance unless you can
> > build a win32-x-dpmi version of GCC.
>
> Simpler than that.  I was just looking for something that can provide me
> with ls, less, gzip, etc. in Windows; I'm not planning to develop
> applications at all.  Anyway, I switched to cygwin, which lacks a couple
> of
> quirks djgpp has.  (For instance, djgpp only accepts screens of a size
> valid
> in DOS, so each time you run bash in a command prompt window it resizes it
> to
> one of those sizes.)
>
> Also, I did find my shell prompt problem: I created my bashrc using DOS
> linefeeds and I ended up with a prompt containing an embedded linefeed.
>
> The ls problem was solved by writing a batch file which calls ls --color.
> It's ugly but it works.
>
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