Mail Archives: djgpp/1996/12/18/10:30:54
On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Shawn Hargreaves wrote:
> Jan Hubicka writes:
> >I receiving somme messages that my XaoS
> >(http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka/XaoS) soes not work under winNT
> >Is this true? Is this djgpp/allegro problem or XaoS problem?
> >Some sollutions?
>
> I don't have access to NT, so I may be completely mistaken here, but I'd
> be very surprised if it did work. NT doesn't like DOS apps messing
It might be something entirely different. I'm told that NT doesn't allow
fat ds, so if you use nearptrs, it might barf. Another possible cause is
that the default sbrk algorithm itself needs the fat ds in some cases, so
on NT it is safer to use the unixy sbrk algorithm.
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