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Date:	Wed, 30 Jul 1997 22:13:09 -0700
From:	Jason Dagit <thedagit AT mail DOT coos DOT or DOT us>
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Subject:	Re: DJGPP and Win95... a beginner

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Date: Wed, 30 Jul 1997 22:12:37 -0700
From: Jason Dagit <thedagit AT mail DOT coos DOT or DOT us>
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To: Locke <lockeg AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: DJGPP and Win95... a beginner
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Locke wrote:

> Is there any way I can run a djgpp program in windows 95?

I do.  Well, some programs I like to quit to DOS first, but any that
will work in DOS will work in Win95 on my machine. 

> problem for me to shut down to dos every time, but I can't see a normal
> user playing a game that required this (unless it was something amazing,
> like Quake).

I am also pondering this, it seems to me that M$ knew good and dam well
what they were doing when they made it so that you have to restart to
get to DOS.  I don't really think that you go to DOS when you do that
either.  My reason?  Because of how vsync() works when windows is
running verses being completely in DOS.  How do I know how it runs in
DOS?  Well, I had to change the file c:\msdos.sys.  Change the line that
says 
BootGUI=1 to BootGUI=0 and you will get into DOS.  But then again maybe
the constant rebooting from the spastic nature of Win95's sudden and
uncalled for crashes has just made my paranoid....

I realize that I am rambling but while I am at it...Has anyone with
Win95 ever left it running all night, not doing anything.  I left Win95
on several times through the night, monitor off, no screen saver, just
sitting there doing nothing.  When I turn the monitor on in the morning
it has crashed.  What happened to the systems that I hear stories of,
that if they crashed twice in 6 months they had a team on it trying to
figure out what was wrong with the system.  Yes I am refering to stories
about mainframes, but why can't PC's have software that is even half as
reliable as that?

> Everytime I try to run a program compiled in djgpp from
> windows 95, or a dos box, my system hangs.  I realize too, as I am writing
> this, that all the programs I have tried use the allegro library.  Could it
> be that?

I might be but, maybe your just not using it(allegro) properly.  And yet
on the other hand you said they did work in DOS...hmm...that is
perplexing indeed.

Jason

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