From: dj AT chepil DOT weru DOT ksu DOT edu (DJ D. Ding) Subject: Problem with the stripped executable on my Gateway50V To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp mailing list) Date: Fri, 26 Feb 93 15:32:43 CST After I asked the question about the 'strip.exe' on my machine, I got two replies as listed as following: ---- >From gerryt AT wimsey DOT com Fri Feb 26 10:10:33 1993 This message usually comes from trying to run a 1.09 executeable with a 1.08 go32 or vica-versa. Perhaps your strip.exe is a 1.08 version and your samples are 1.09? I'll bet you have your .exe versions mixed up This should be a FAQ... -gerryt ---- >From: DJ Delorie The message you give indicates that you have a pre-1.08 version of go32.exe in your path. Per-1.08 go32's cannot run post-1.08 executables due to a bug that 1.08 fixed found during an optimization. Thanks DJ, gerryt! Based on the comments, first, I double checked the 'djdev109.zip' which I downloaded from 'wumirrros/msdos' three days ago, I could not identify anything related to version 1.08. Then, I recompiled 'strip.exe' again and tried this newly compiled 'strip.exe' with samples. I got the same error on my machine. Last, I tried the stripped execuables on several DX50, DX33 in my office, no problem at all. I still think the problem is related to the specific hardware, i.e, Gateway 486DX 50 vesa bus and I hope somebody can suggest a way to further diagnose it. --DJ DING Enclosed next is my original message (modified): When I tried the sample programs come with djdev109.zip on a Gateway 486-33ISA machine, everything went very well. However, when I went to repeat my success on my Gateway 4DX50V (local bus, 50dx2 cpu), I ran out of luck with 'strip.exe'. It took a while for me to identify the problem. Now, I can only run the programs such as 'sort.exe', 'grtask.exe' if the codes are unstripped. If I run the stripped codes, my machine will hangup. I have to hard reboot (turn off the power) to get out. The error message is: /djgpp/samples/sort/sort.exe version 1.09 Copyright (c) 1991 DJ Delorie unknown file type 0x3433 (032063) I suspect this is a hardware problem since the stripped codes run fine on the 1.5 year old 486-33, and I would like to know if anybody has similar experience especially those have Gateway 66V or 33V.