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From:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
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Subject:	Re: Pattern of a program crash
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Date:	Wed, 9 Jan 2002 10:06:06 -0600 (CST)
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> I got a message from someone using NTLFN who says his program no longer
> crashes once NTLFN is loaded.

Another tidbit - this crash only happens if the memory address space is
fragmented and dpmi returns a memory block at a lower address than the
first allocation.  So running multiple programs at once sometimes causes
the problem to happen/disappear.

So loading ntlfn may put memory in the lower memory block to cause it to
be too small for a djgpp 64K sbrk() request - so it goes higher instead
of lower.

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