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Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 18:19:35 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: RHIDE doesn't run in window on XP
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On Wed, 1 May 2002, jansb000 wrote:

> When I leave RHIDE (ALT-X) I get some kind of error (general protection
> fault? I am not sure). The error is (reportedly) caused by "ntvdm.exe". This
> file is in de WinXP system32 directory.

This is due to a bug in NTVDM.  You need a newer version of RHIDE, one 
that is compiled with a version of C library where there's a work-around 
for that bug.

> Don't know what this program does
> (maybe it stands for NT-Virtual Device Manager ???).

No, it's NT Virtual DOS Machine, a DOS emulator that is part of Windows 
NT and all its descendants.

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