On Sun, 16 Jun 1996 MGODFREY@runt.dawsoncollege.qc.ca wrote: > Was just wondering, is it possible to get CircleMUD running locally under > conventional dos? Yeah. If you put in modem code, you could even have people call in via modem (but what's the point?), since Circle doesn't use any multitasking stuff. All you should have to do is remove all the socket code and replace it with normal printf's and gets's and so on. You can use EMX to compile it. Although EMX is actually for OS/2, it, by default, compiles programs for both OS/2 and DOS. I've also found EMX to be a little more lenient when in comes to some of the more questionable UNIX functions (like select(), which is almost, but not quite, obsolete in DOS). Anyway, EMX 0.9b (gcc 2.7.something) should be available at any of the Hobbes mirrors, like ftp.cdrom.com:/.4/os2 and ftp.uoknor.edu:/mirrors/hobbes. Try looking in unix/emx09b at those places, though I think ftp.cdrom.com has switched over to some ridiculous new format that makes it impossible to locate files. And by "conventional DOS" you mean DOS 5.0+ on a 386+ with about 4MB+ of RAM, right? And no DOS extender (like Windoze)? If you expect an EMX program to run under DPMI, you'll also need the RSX DOS extender, available at the same place in contrib/. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Barid Bel Medar icarus@berkshire.net Knights of the Cosmos Shayol Ghul Resort and Health Spa ------------------------------------------------------------------ "I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top." - English Professor, Ohio University ------------------------------------------------------------------
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