From:	dj AT chepil DOT weru DOT ksu DOT edu (DJ D. Ding)
Subject:	Problem with the stripped executable on my Gateway50V
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp mailing list)
Date:	Fri, 26 Feb 93 15:32:43 CST

After I asked the question about the 'strip.exe' on my machine, 
I got two replies as listed as following:

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>From gerryt AT wimsey DOT com Fri Feb 26 10:10:33 1993
This message usually comes from trying to run a 1.09 executeable with a
1.08 go32 or vica-versa.  Perhaps your strip.exe is a 1.08 version and
your samples are 1.09? I'll bet you have your .exe versions mixed up
This should be a FAQ...  -gerryt

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>From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT ctron DOT com>
The message you give indicates that you have a pre-1.08 version of
go32.exe in your path.  Per-1.08 go32's cannot run post-1.08
executables due to a bug that 1.08 fixed found during an optimization.

Thanks DJ, gerryt!   

Based on the comments, first, I double checked the 'djdev109.zip' which I 
downloaded from 'wumirrros/msdos' three days ago, I could not identify
anything related to version 1.08. Then, I recompiled 'strip.exe' again
and tried this newly compiled 'strip.exe' with samples. I got the same
error on my machine. Last, I tried the stripped execuables on several 
DX50, DX33 in my office, no problem at all. I still think the problem is
related to the specific hardware, i.e, Gateway 486DX 50 vesa bus and I
hope somebody can suggest a way to further diagnose it.

--DJ DING

Enclosed next is my original message (modified):

When I tried the sample programs come with djdev109.zip on a Gateway 486-33ISA
machine, everything went very well. However, when I went to repeat my
success on my Gateway 4DX50V (local bus, 50dx2 cpu), I ran out of luck
with 'strip.exe'. It took a while for me to identify the problem. Now, I
can only run the programs such as 'sort.exe', 'grtask.exe' if the codes are
unstripped. If I run the stripped codes, my machine will hangup. I have to
hard reboot (turn off the power) to get out. The error message is:

 /djgpp/samples/sort/sort.exe version 1.09 Copyright (c) 1991 DJ Delorie
 unknown file type 0x3433 (032063)

I suspect this is a hardware problem since the stripped
codes run fine on the 1.5 year old 486-33, and I would like
to know if anybody has similar experience  especially those have
Gateway 66V or 33V. 

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