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+Here's an email from Thad Ward on compiling QuakeForge under djgpp:
+
+
+[Quake-devel] Compiling under djgpp
+From: Thad Ward <coderjoe@grnet.com>
+To: quake-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
+
+
+I'm currently working on getting the code to compile under djgpp. There is
+a lot to do, but i wanted to post a list of the djgpp "packages" that I had
+to download to get autoconf to work, and to get the code compiling.
+
+the packages I had to download are: djdev203, faq211b, bnu281b, gcc2952b,
+gdb418b, gpp2952b, lgpp295b, mak377b, txi312b, bsh1147b, acnf213b,
+amake14b, perl552b, m4-14b, sed302b, fil316b, grep22b, shl112b,
+txt122b, gwk303b, dif271b
+
+
+These probably should go into the README file.
+
+Also, i had to add a SHELL= line to the makefile generated by autoconf to
+get make to work.
+
+Thad Ward