From: Martin Str|mberg <ams AT ludd DOT luth DOT se>
Message-Id: <199807231656.SAA18000@father.ludd.luth.se>
Subject: Re: info core dumps
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 18:56:30 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP-WORKERS)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.980723094821.14884F-100000@is> from Eli Zaretskii at "Jul 23, 98 09:48:35 am"
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According to Eli Zaretskii:
> If you could play with your system configuration and see what
> parameters have any effect on this problem, it might also help.  For
> example, if the BIOS have a setting to shadow some of the ROM, or if
> the memory manager has parameters which exclude/include certain memory
> areas, try changing them.
> 
> The reason I'm asking for all this is that I think A20 and the HMA are
> enabled on every system that can remap BIOS.  So I don't see how
> enabling it again could help.  If I'm right, then we might be looking
> in the wrong place.

Ok, I made a minimal CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT on hardware 2 and
messed around with "shadow" (and "cached" where there was such an
entry) for BIOS and Video and Adapter. No change. Any other ideas?
What memory ranges should I exclude?

Additionally I discovered that "redir -eo info|less" doesn't
crash. Perhaps this should have been expected, but it was a surprise
to me. 

Minimal CONFIG.SYS:
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DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
BUFFERS=30,0
FILES=50
DOS=UMB
LASTDRIVE=Z
FCBS=4,0
DOS=HIGH
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\RAMDRIVE.SYS 4096 /E
SHELL = C:\DOS\COMMAND.COM C:\DOS /p /e:1024
COUNTRY=046,850,C:\DOS\COUNTRY.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\DISPLAY.SYS CON=(EGA,,1)
-----

Minimal AUTOEXEC.BAT:
-----
PROMPT $p$g
PATH
c:\djgpp.202\bin;c:\djgpp.202\gnu\emacs\bin;C:\DOS;c:\perl;c:\emacs\bin;c:\
\compress;c:\nc;c:\vibra16
SET TEMP=e:\
SET TMP=e:\
MODE CON CODEPAGE PREPARE=((850) C:\DOS\EGA.CPI)
MODE CON CODEPAGE SELECT=850
LH /L:2,17296 KEYB SV,,C:\DOS\KEYBOARD.SYS
@echo.

LH /L:1,6528 c:\dos\doskey /insert

set DJGPP=c:\djgpp.202\djgpp.env
set TMPDIR=e:

set AR=ar
set CC=gcc
set MAKE=make
set RANLIB=ranlib
set YACC=bison -b y -y
-----


Arvo Pärt, Kanon Pokajanen,

							MartinS