[splint-discuss] Platforms

[Ethan Rosenberg]

At 06:56 AM 11/4/2007, you wrote:
>On Thu, 2007-11-01 09:36:43 -0400, Ethan Rosenberg wrote:
> >
> > Will splint run on DOS, specifically DOS 7.1 [the DOS component of
> > Win 98]?  I have a computer running only DOS 7.1 w/o Win 98.
>
>Hi Ethan,
>
>I doubt splint will compile on an 16-bit operating system, so I'm
>pretty sure you won't get a native DOS splint. However, I remember
>there have been 32-bit DOS extensions (emx et al.).
>
>As I don't think they provide a POSIX shell environment, don't know
>how to run the configure script on an extended DOS, though.
>
>HTH
>
>Ludolf
>
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Ludolf -

I added a DPMI server [cwsdpmi] and I receive a 
message "will not run on DOS systems".  I thought 
that a DPMI server is supposed to allow 32 bit 
programs run under DOS.  Is there any work 
around.  Could someone help with this one.

Thanks.

Ethan