Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1998/06/09/15:23:40
Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 1998, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
>
> > It works OK on this system.
>
> Btw, did you say at some point that installing Windows from the same CD
> on two different machines gets you different behavior? That is, one
> machine has this problem whereas the other doesn't?
Yes, same CD, same license (oh no! Bill will hunt me now ;-).
> I'm asking that because somebody who works a lot with Win32 compilers
> suggested to compare the size and time stamp of windows/system/vmm32.vxd
> (which reportedly includes both the DPMI server and most of the DOS
> extender built into Windows). He says that Microsoft have a nasty habit
> of releasing small patches to core modules without changing the OS
> version, so versions which seem identical might in fact be different in
> subtle ways.
Well even when both have the same copy perhaps one program installed a newer
vmm32.vxd .... let me see .... they are different!!!
Machine without problems (clean installation): vmm32.vxd 697318 bytes
1998-06-04, 12:02
Machine with more software installed: vmm32.vxd 710034 1998-05-19 12:21
But wait ... that isn't even the original!!! in the .cabs the file is 411132
bytes long. Don't ask me from where the other 2 came from.
> But if you can get both kinds of behavior from the same CD, the version
> of vmm32 is not the issue.
Looks that the problem could be there, but is hard to know how or why the files
are so different.
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