From:	huntercr AT cs DOT purdue DOT edu (Charles Hunter)
Subject:	RSX is great and the point of freeware is questioned...
To:	DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp mailing list)
Date:	Thu, 23 Feb 1995 10:01:40 -0500 (EST)

Everyone seems to be missing my point a bit... and if the issue 
brought up cannot be resolved in another way, I think RSX's use
becomes limited.

Everyone is saying that the requirements for using RSX for djgpp
are to have a commercial compiler that is intended for windows...
That is about as silly as saying that if you want to use djgpp for 
32-bit dos apps, you need to buy Watcom!
IMHO one of the great points of djgpp is that it provides a 32bit compiler
for those of us who can't afford a commercial one, and if RSX requires files
from a commercial product, then it's use becomes restricted.

I am sorry if I sound like I am "ungrateful", but it seems to me that 
if windows.h can be found in ~any~ commercial compiler, that it would
not be too difficult to get it included in RSX.

After all.. what could possibly be included in that header? If it is
only prototypes, defines, etc, then since there are no external libraries
from these compilers cannot one assume that the coorresponding functions writtenfor these prototypes are *not* taken from the commercial product?
If this is true then the header should be able to be included since the file   
does not point to the copyrighted source anymore.


		Open to comments, corrections, etc..

			--Charles Hunter

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