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Date:      Fri, 25 Jul 1997 11:40:53 +0400 (DST)
From:      "Sergei S. Laskavy" <laskavy@cs.msu.su>
To:        newand01@sprynet.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Freebsd
Message-ID:  <199707250740.LAA26032@ns.cs.msu.su>
In-Reply-To: <33D7E2B5.2C7A@sprynet.com> (message from Mathew Fournier on Thu, 24 Jul 1997 19:18:13 -0400)

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>>>>> "Mathew" == Mathew Fournier <newand01@sprynet.com> writes:

    Mathew> I just installed linux, and well, nuked it an hour later,
    Mathew> but, i still wanna get something unixish, but my resolve
    Mathew> has faded, i'm wondering, (since i'm a programmer
    Mathew> somewhat, though i may be a tad young) is, whats different
    Mathew> about coding in C in dos, and coding in C in unix? is it
    Mathew> the same? can i right something in freebsd , debug it, and
    Mathew> later compile it in dos? .. or what..  Mathew Fournier.

Thats a very hard question :)

If you have a ANSI C (gcc for DOS for example) then it would be OK.

In DOS you usually do not have such freedom like in UNIX. You will
need to port your UNIX code to DOS.

May I ask: who is using DOS now? I used it last time on 286 box 10000
years ago...



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