Yes, but SDCC doesn't actually run under Windows, does it?  It runs under a 
DOS prompt, which means it uses the DOS command interpreter, as presented by 
Windows, rather than Windows.  How does that fit together?

regards,

Richard Erlacher

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From: "Richard Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: [Sdcc-user] documentation & open source generally


> CYGWIN, I believe, allows some native Linux programs to run on a Windows
> machine, as WINE allows some Windows programs to run on a Linux machine. 
> By
> native I mean a simple copy of the binary executable file transferred from
> one machine to the other. There may well be other shells/emulators that
> permit this kind of functionality, but these are the ones I know of.
>
> On Thursday 04 September 2008 05:41:25 Richard Erlacher wrote:
>> Sadly, though you may know, you haven't shed light on WHY this SDCC stuff
>> isn't promoted as a DOS program, rather than a Windows program.
>>
>> If it requires an add-on to Windows, WHY?  What does that do?
>>
>> Do you seen what I mean?  Why is there a CYGWIN?  ... and what's that 
>> other
>> one MINGW ... or some such?  Why do those exist?
>>
>> regards,
>>
>> Richard Erlacher
> <snip>
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