[fpc-pascal] What is the lowest MS-DOS version supported by FPC?

[Bihar Anwar]

Vinzent Höfler on May 16, 2010 3:48:25 AM wrote:


>> I've tried googling and searching FPC mailing list for information about
>> this one, but I found nothing. 
>> I just found in  http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/v2faq/faq3_1.html  that
>> DJGPP  requires MS-DOS version 3.1 or later.
>> 
>> Would someone here tell me exactly about lowest MS-DOS version supported
>> by FPC?

> 3.1, I'm pretty sure. AFAIK it doesn't use any specific DOS 5.x+ calls except perhaps for checking for existence of DOS 7.x (Win95) LFN functions. And DOS 4.x was close to non-existent anyway.
>
> Of course, it has probably never tried with such old versions.

Thank you very much Vinzent.