From:	simma AT ix DOT netcom DOT com (Alex Simma)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: Newbie RHIDE woes.....
Date:	Fri, 08 Nov 1996 00:12:26 GMT
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On Thu, 7 Nov 1996 17:04:54 GMT, Bruce Locke <BLOCKE AT VM1 DOT NERIC DOT ORG>
wrote:

>
>Hello everyone....
>
>I am new to both DJGPP and the C programming language....
>
>I am having some problems getting RHIDE to work on my system.  I have
>a generic 386DX computer with 4MB RAM, a 200MB Hard drive and Trident
>8900C Super-Vga card with an SVGA monitor.

>My first problem with RHIDE is that it will not start in a Windows 3.1
>DOS box.  I have followed the DJGPP FAQ's suggestions about DPMI memory
>to no avail.  RHIDE simple displays its opening message and freezes
>completly (mouse cursor and all).  Half the time I can't even press
>CONTROL-ALT-DELETE to reboot the machine.
I do not know about that, but I think I heard that it is a documented
bug.
>So, I tried CSWDPMI (?) from PC-DOS 6.3 (windows not running) and it
>seems to work fine with an exception.  Sometimes I get kicked out to DOS
>whenever I choose the help section.  Also, if a line I am entering in the
>editor is more than around 40 characters in length, whenever I press a key,
>garbage appears on that line for part of a second.  RHIDE seems to work
>fine but I find this extermly annoying and distracting.
Do not choose help when there is no open windows, you will get kicked
out, that is a documented bug.  The second one is also
doctumented(don't forget, this is beta).
>What am I doing wrong?
Nothing
>Is this a reported bug in RHIDE?
Yes
>Is there a bug fix?
not that I know of
>Is version 1.0 out yet?
No.
>Thanks in advance, Bruce.
>
>
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                                 Alex 

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