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- From: sbaierl@sninw.com (Scott J. Baierl)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Visual C++ and DOS
- Date: Tue, 06 Feb 1996 13:19:20 GMT
- Organization: Schneider National, Inc.
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- Karl Young <kyoung@itsa.ucsf.edu> wrote:
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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.
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- No, Visual C++ 4.0 is 32-bit only. You must use version 1.xxx for
- 16-bit.
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- >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 ?
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- DOS is 16-bit. See answer 1.
-
- >Thanks for any suggestions,
-
- >-- Karl Young (kyoung@itsa.ucsf.edu)
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