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- From: ojtv@phoenix.oulu.fi (Olli Vuolteenaho)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Turbo C/C++
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.070607.6977@ousrvr.oulu.fi>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 07:06:07 GMT
- References: <tadr.725763261@keiko>
- Sender: news@ousrvr.oulu.fi
- Organization: University of Oulu, Finland
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- Tom A. D. Riley (tadr@doe.carleton.ca) wrote:
- : In <1992Dec30.221731.29705@nmsu.edu> pidgeon@acca.nmsu.edu (Pidgeon) writes:
- :
- : >I'm looking for people's experiences with running Turbo C/C++ under OS/2.
- : >Can it be run, particularly the huge model? And can the debugger be used?
- : >Are there any caveats to be aware of and what should the DOS settings be?
- : Yes it runs, yes with huge arrays (64k double precision FFT requires 512kbytes)
- : Yes the debugger works with watch variables, break points etc.
- : No special attention to the dos settings seemed to be necessary to me.
- : Now those huge FFT's run in the background while I read the News.
-
- I had to set DPMI_DOS_API to ENABLED (this is for TC++ 3.1). And yes, the
- OS/2 system migrated it to the desktop as an OS/2 (and not DOS) program
- although it refuses to run it as an OS/2 program (as a DOS program it
- works fine).
-
- Olli
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