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Subject: Re: DOS version of Chest possible?

Author: Allen Lake

Date: 04:36:21 06/03/02

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On June 02, 2002 at 21:53:31, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On June 02, 2002 at 19:26:58, Allen Lake wrote:
>
>>On June 02, 2002 at 16:19:47, F. Huber wrote:
>>
>>>with "pure DOS" I mean booting the computer under DOS (e.g. Ver.6.22 or so),
>>>and not starting it within a DOS command prompt under Windows.
>>>
>>>Yes, there are still DOS users (like me)!
>>>I don´t see any need to boot with Windows when I want to use DOS programs,
>>>and I have a lot of them. Also I have a boot menu to select starting
>>>DOS or Windows, whatever I just need. Therefore I would like also a
>>>DOS version of ´Chest´ which runs without Windows.
>>
>>I compiled a version of chest 3.19 using the DJGPP compiler (gcc 3.1) which
>>should run on DOS 6.22 -- it definitely runs in Win98SE MS-DOS mode (since I
>>don't have an older DOS machine to test it on).  Please send a note to the email
>>address in my profile so I'll know where to email the package (600 KB in size).
>
>
>
>Don't forget to include CWSDPMI.EXE and it should work under pure DOS.
>
>
>
>    Christophe

Yes, it needed CWSDPMI.EXE when I rebooted Win98SE in MS-DOS mode as well, so I
included CWSDPMI.EXE in the zip package I'll be sending out.

Thanks,

Allen







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