At 05:52 PM 5/27/2010, Martin Woodhouse wrote: >Hi Conan > >That wouldn't be Borland C, would it? I built an entire e-book >writing-reading-publishing suite for DOS using Borland C in 1989-91 No, that wouldn't.
As already mentioned, the compiler he is looking for is now called "Digital Mars C/C++" and is available as freeware for download from the author's (Walter Bright) web site at www.digitalmars.com . The compiler was called in the past (in order of appearance) Northwest Software C Datalight C Zorland C Zortech C (after a nudge from Borland apparently) Zortech C++ Symantec C++ (after selling the rights to Symantec) Digital Mars C++ (after Walter got the rights back from Symantec) And unfortunately, the compiler that can be downloaded nowadays does not run under 16 bit DOS as I previously mentioned, I was used to run it on the command line of a Windows 98 machine. Though it is capable of producing 16 bit DOS executables, it is a Win32 console program... So the only still available 16 bit C compiler that still runs on 16 bit DOS is DeSmet C 3.1 (which is now Open Source)... I personally prefer Borlands C/C++ 3.1 myself, it's still after all those years the most usable DOS C/C++ compiler that still runs on 16 bit DOS, though unfortunately, only the older version of Turbo C++ 1.01 is available from Borland's/Imprise's/Codegear's/Embaradero's museums page as freeware (not Open Source). But still good enough if you in fact want to write real DOS programs... Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
