hi Paul Wankadia,
 BO>> Major disadventages of DJGPP are it is hard to configure
 PW> *I* don't recall having to configure anything.  Then again, I had to
 PW> wrestle for quite a while to get PUNIX to compile the way I wanted...
 Are we talking about the same DJGPP? i got all zipped files (including 
binaries), unzipped them from the same directory (with 'rebuild directory 
structure' turned on), everything seemed allright until I tried to compile 
something :-), it just didn't.. then I got back into FAQ files, made all the 
global settings O.K., (I mean the file pointing to directories and dos DJGPP 
variable etc.) but it still didn't work.. Then I tried to compile the source 
code with DJGPP 1.0 (which I could somehow got working after a great effort) 
but I could not manage that either..
 Well, maybe I'm so used to using Borland products which requires virtually 
no configuration, that I can not configure even a simple compiler.
 BO>> and it uses an nonconventional (for intel cpu's ofcourse)
 BO>> assembly format (while using inline asm.);
 PW> That's AT&T syntax ASM for you ... 'n' danb good it is too, IMO.
 For anyone who has used Tasm/Masm format for a considerable amount of time, 
it is a quite uncomfortable style. Wouldn't mind much if I had to use it only 
in inline asm bu object level incompatibilities force to use that syntax for 
asm. modules that should be linked too..
 BO>> the licence agreement requires you to write either free or
 BO>> shareware programs only.
 PW> There I was, thinking that "Quake" was written with DJGPP...
 I don't have any simplest idea about Quake, except that it is a popular doom 
type game; is it 'there you were' as 'a great game like quake is 
free/shareware' or 'it is not free/shareware even thought it was written 
using DJGPP' ?
                                                Berk
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