Agreed. I wanted to script stuff like linking together 200 .OBJs, and running tests' stderr through sed to make it comparable with a known-good log. A DJGPP ins

Agreed. I wanted to script stuff like linking together 200 .OBJs, and running tests' stderr through sed to make it comparable with a known-good log. A DJGPP install + ancient Python inside DOSBox would've also done the job. Or even period-accurate DOS tools, but that'd cross my "is this retrocomputing or masochism?" threshold for this project.