From:	Damian Frank <damianf AT WPI DOT EDU>
Subject:	Argh! QEMM (I think) troubles...
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date:	Tue, 4 Apr 1995 15:23:43 -0400 (EDT)

I've just installed DJGPP 1.12m4, and I'm having some (somewhat) odd
troubles with it.. I'd very much appreciate it if anyone could shed some
light upon my predicament.

I'm using DOS 6.2, 8 megs ram, about half a meg used as disk cache, and
around 7 megs free on my temp drive.

I use Ontrack's Disk Manager (mangler?) software, and DJGPP is located upon
one of the managed (mangled?) drives.  More importantly, I use QEMM v7.04 (I
use DOSDATA and DOSUP, but not QDPMI.  QEMM is on.  As an aside, I have an
enlarged environment, and since I haven't gotten that to work with DOSUP, I
don't load command.com high.)  I normally run Norton Cache 2 (from..Norton
Utils v7, I believe) with a cache size of about 512k. I also use a host of
smaller TSR's, mostly loaded high.  Finally, I load a CD-ROM driver and
MSCDEX.

Now, the nitty-gritty.  I eagerly installed it, and I don't think I messed
anything up.  (But obviously SOMETHING's wrong..)  I was able to compile and
run the tryit program without any trouble.  However, I then installed GRX,
and attempted to make the test files, and gcc initialized and plodded
happily along, until it had finished printing the include search
directories, at which point (if I had topline OFF) it would clear off a
little space at the top of the screen (at one crash, I believe it said
Divide Overflow) and crash, hard.  (A reset was required.)  Incidentally,
with topline on, it's sort of hard to see where it crashed, because it
flickers several things on and then blanks the line, right before it
crashes.

I found that I couldn't really compile anything but tryit with any success. 
I did the ol' config.sys/autoexec.bat shuffle, selectively disabling TSRs,
and found that it worked fine if I simply removed QEMM.  However, from what
I've read, I OUGHT to be able to get this to work.

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong?  I'd greatly appreciate it.

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