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Re: fast firmware downloader
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Date: 
Sat, 30 Oct 1999 22:46:48 GMT
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Ralph Hempel wrote:
I wonder if it is OK to change the filenames to 8.3? I know that DOS has its
limits, and it's probably not worth converting to it, but it occurs
to me that a DOS executable would work under WIN3.1 and Win9x as well.
I think even Linux runs old DOS executables, right?

Actually, lots of packages try to deal with filenames intelligently. QT,
for example, has normal C++ NamingConventions, but uses lowercaseonly
file names.
I try to do the same. Notice how direct-sensor.h became dsensor.h in
0.2.0, as well as many changes similar in spirit.

Since NQC is a console app anyways, it might make it really easy to support
all platforms by simply supporting DOS...right?

Hmmm. Anyone have a DJGPP-based H8 C compiler and binutils ready? I'd
really like a tool distribution that doesn't require Cygwin, for all
those people who don't actually have make, or perl, or anything on their
systems.

Markus.

--
"Nieder mit den Zitaten!" -Markus L. Noga <markus@noga.de>



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  RE: fast firmware downloader
 
(...) I tried to do a DJGPP build of binutils and it didn't work for me. I really didn't want to spend more time futzing with the tools, and I was already using Cygwin, so I used one of the precompiled toolsets. I think you are just a lazy typer, (...) (25 years ago, 30-Oct-99, to lugnet.robotics.rcx)

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