Date:	Tue, 23 Sep 1997 13:08:50 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Jim Chapman <jim DOT chapman AT sympatico DOT ca>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: ispell
In-Reply-To:	<3427233E.676C@sympatico.ca>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.970923130754.14928L-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Jim Chapman wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii was right again. When I removed the display.sys from my
> config.sys file both ispell and info work with LINES=40 in the djgpp.env
> file.

Are you using CWSDPMI and no memory manager?  I think there's a bug in
CWSDPMI when you need to access memory in the UMBs (the 64k region
just above 1M mark).  Ispell and Info access the BIOS character tables
when you want to work in 40-line mode, and DISPLAY.SYS relocates these
tables, possibly to upper memory.

Please post a complete description of your system setup, including
what "mem /c" and go32-v2 print, CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT and the
output of the SET command.

> However I am now experiencing the problem that the output file has
> a length of 0 if I change anything in the text.

Does this happen even when you disable LINES=40?  If so, there must be
something in your system that triggers this bug, since Ispell works
for me.

> I am running this as a stand alone program not from
> within emacs. I tried all combinations of commands and nothing seems to
> work. I haven't yet got to trying to get emacs working.

Don't try Emacs.  The Ispell interface in Emacs currently doesn't work
on MS-DOS because it requires ability to run two programs (Emacs and
Ispell) concurrently, with a pipe connection between them.

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