Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
From:	fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us (Fred Smith)
Subject:	Re: bash under djgpp / dosemu ?
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References:	<5anno1$7dv AT salomon DOT mchp DOT siemens DOT de>
Date:	Sun, 5 Jan 1997 19:26:21 GMT
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To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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Ulrich Lauther (lauther AT cayley DOT zfe DOT siemens DOT de) wrote:
: I am trying to run djgpp under Linux / dosemu.
: Compiling seems to work fine, however, when I start bash, I get the bash
: prompt and the window freezes.

: Running go32-v2 gives:

: DPMI memory available: 7987 Kb
: DPMI swap space available: 0 Kb

: Why is swap space 0? I this and the bash problem related?

I went thru this a while back myself, and I think the consensus was
that the DPMI server built into DOSEMU does not provide virtual memory
(i.e., paging) capabilities. But that's OK... all you need to do is 
change your dosemu.conf file to say something like;

	dpmi 16384

or however much RAM you want to be available in your DOS session, then
DOSEMU will let Linux do the paging for you. If you need more RAM
for your program, make the "dpmi ...." in dosemu.conf a bigger number.

Fred
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