Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 22:08:46 +0200
From: Frank Heckenbach <frank AT tim DOT gerwinski DOT de>
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To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: __dpmi_yield()
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> > Now, I don't know if the problem is with DJGPP or another program.
> > The relevant program versions are Linux 2.2.9, DosEmu 0.98.4, NWDOS
> > 7.0, CWSDPMI 0.90+ (r3), DJGPP 2.02, GCC 2.8.1 -- hope I didn't
> > forget anything. ;-)
> 
> Perhaps the real cause of the problem is NWDOS?  Could you try this
> with another DOS work-alike, or with MS-DOS?

No, sorry, I don't have another one handy.

> > But if it should be fixed elsewhere, I'd appreciate any pointers to
> > the correct place to ask.
> 
> Perhaps you could ask the Linux DOSEmu gurus about this (I don't know
> the appropriate forum; anybody?).  If they say that it should be
> supported, then perhaps the DOS version is the culprit.

OK, I'll mail it to dosemu-bugs AT dosemu DOT org .

> In any case, it's impossible to revert to the old behavior of issuing
> INT 2Fh directly.  Personally, even doing that for DOSEmu alone
> (provided that we have a reliable way of detecting it) is not
> something I would recommend.  It is one thing to work around Windows
> bugs, but doing the same with free software such as DOSEmu where
> everything should be open to scrutiny and any bugs should be fixable,
> doesn't sound good.

I see. I just hope it's a problem of DosEmu, not of NWDOS where it
couldn't be fixed easily.

Frank

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