[fpc-pascal]Re: fp under Windows

Matt Emson memsom at interalpha.co.uk
Sat Feb 10 17:14:53 CET 2001


>I think you are talking about two different things. The reason for the
>confusion is probably that MS always called it a Dos prompt and gave it an

>MSDOS icon. 

Yep, that's what I was trying to point out. 

>A "prompt window" will probably always be available in some
>form unde Win**, but it will most likely evoluate to a form where it can't

>run any Dos programs anymore (or only with very bad compatibility, since
>it seems to get worse with every new Windows release).

Exactly!!! I glad someone else understands ;)

>But all this does not have any impact on fp: there are both Windows and
>Dos versions available of fp. Same goes for ppc386.

Exactly my point too. I never said FP had a problem on the Win32 platform..
just the DOS version.




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