Date:	Mon, 13 Dec 1999 06:11:22 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Jude T. DaShiell" <jdashiel AT clark DOT net>
To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	djgpp installation update
Message-ID:	<Pine.GSO.4.05.9912130602060.14354-100000@shell.clark.net>
MIME-Version:	1.0
Reply-To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com

What I'm about to write now I can't explain.  In my mind it's truly weird.
I removed the himem.sys device driver from config.sys and once done,
everything in djgpp is now talking again.  This is microsoft dos 7.10 and
my guess is that maybe the himem.sys device driver is loaded whenever
emm386.exe is installed from config.sys.  Now here comes the part that's
like mud.  Including the himem.sys device driver may cause an error
situation because dos 7.10 allows it to be loaded twice.  These device
drivers may not be like tsr's in that they don't detect themselves already
in memory and refuse to load a second time evidently.
I haven't tried running go32-v2 yet but will do that next.  After all of
this I should probably find out how to run the test suite and interpret
those results.
It would be better if this version of dos let users know both himem.sys
and emm386 were loaded rather than leaving the himem.sys device driver
situation so ambiguous.


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jude <jdashiel AT clark DOT net>

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