Date: Thu, 27 May 93 10:46:14 PDT
From: Peter Crowley <pcrowley AT qdeck DOT com>
To: Peter DOT Rojsel AT maxlab DOT lu DOT se, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re[2]: gcc and Novell

Peter Roejsel writes:
>I have two identical 486-machines except for an SMC ethernet adapter.
>On the one without ethernet DJGPP works very good. On the one with ethernet
>adapter anything compiled with DJGPP hangs the computer if Novells IPX and
>NETX has been loaded. I have excluded the ethernet cards ram buffer from
>the memory area that EMM386 uses by setting the switch /x=...
>What have I done wrong?

It may be that you do not have enough conventional memory available on the 
machine with IPX/NETx. What does the 'mem' program report? You will need at
least 500k free. If this is the problem you could try loading high IPX and
NETx. Or replacing NETx with EMSNETx with takes only 9k.

Peter Crowley
Quarterdeck Offices Systems
pcrowley AT qdeck DOT com