Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/01/09/17:58:50
My trials to implement latex2html under DOS+djgpp are in bad situation.
The cause IS the behaviour or PERL
5.004 as provided with gnu/djgpp other packages.
In fact, I have been astonished to find that a perl script 'i.e. my
attempted implementation of l2h)
run OK once, and failed another time (exactly the same). In the failing
case, I found out that I had leaved
a Netscape active. Then I terminated the Netscape window... and things
went Ok (OK meaning with the same
behavious as usual, not necessarily correct).
In the same may, when I run "perl latex2html" under native DOS it make
wrong things (id does not crash) while this are reasonable under the DOS
window of dos. But the difference is the amount of XMS under native DOS
(4Mbyte) while it is 30Mbyte in the DOS winbdow of windows.
====> All this means that, when PERL54 has memory problems, it DOES NOT
say "I have memory problems, abort" , but it just returns a code such as
"unable to find a required file"! This mainly occurs with the
"require(<file>) command, but I have no proof that nothing else can auso
fail...
Obviously, I state that such a behaviour resulting in randomly results
is TERRIBLE since one cannot seriously develop something under djgpp/DOS
perl!
====> Question: did somebody experience the same erratic behaviours, and
is there a corrected djgpp release?
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Daniel Taupin, Physique des Solides, Univ. Paris-Sud, 91405 ORSAY
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