Date: Tue, 13 Jul 93 09:54:45 EDT
From: DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To: honoo AT nc DOT titech DOT ac DOT jp
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Q:Graphics and aout2exe problems


> 1. Graphics doesn't work, even with the standard VGA driver.  For example,
> when I try 'grtask' sample, it produces strange text colors; when I replace
> go32.exe with the previous one (1.09), it works fine. 

Correct.  1.10a and 1.11 also work.  1.10a is in pub/csdpmit1.zip.

> 2. aout2exe problem.  When I make foo.exe from foo (a.out file) with aout2exe,
> and run it, it works, but if I delte the original foo and run foo.exe again, 
> it complains and simply ends, printing

> .... c:/work/foo [program [options ...] ]

> or something like that.  I guess foo.exe is just trying to run foo, instead of
> running itself.  

Type "go32" and see what version number is reports.  I bet it's 1.07
or earlier, which can't read the aout2exe header in 1.08 and later.