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- From: Karl Young <kyoung@itsa.ucsf.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Visual C++ and DOS
- Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 16:22:51 +0000
- Organization: UCSF, ITS
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- I have only used C++ in Unix (i.e. g++) and am thinking
- about purchasing Visual C++ but had a couple of questions.
- Firstly, I'll be getting the NT version and I wanted to
- know if I could build programs that could be compiled for
- older, 16-bit versions of Windows like WFWG 3.1.1 with
- the current version of VC++ for NT.
-
- Secondly I'm going to write a couple of programs that will
- run on very old, very slow 386 machines, that need to talk
- to the hardware (specifically the parallel port) and on which
- I won't want to run any flavor of Windows. Can I use VC++
- for NT to write code for DOS (and beyond my wildest dreams
- that would have some routines for putting up primitive
- menus and the like in DOS) or should I just dig up a used
- copy of Turbo C or the like for doing that ?
-
- Thanks for any suggestions,
-
- -- Karl Young (kyoung@itsa.ucsf.edu)
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