From: "Ron Grunwald" <RGRUNWAL AT wasp DOT cs DOT cowan DOT edu DOT au>
Organization:  Edith Cowan University
To: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Date:          Thu, 12 Jan 1995 16:10:03 GMT+800
Subject:       Re: Make V3.71 and DPMI 
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

In response to my query:

> > Is MAKE v3.71 designed to run under DPMI? I have tried running it 
> > from a DOS/box under Windows 3.1, and under QEMM's QDPMI. In both 
> > instances it hangs the machine so badly, I can't even do a softboot. 
> > No error messages get displayed at all. 

Eli replied with:
 
> It works as advertised for me, both under QDPMI and Win3.1.
> Are you sure you indeed invoke DJGPP's Make?  Borland's
> Make was reported to cause troubles like you describe
> (probably because it also uses DPMI services).  Maybe
> there is another Make program sitting on your PATH before
> DJGPP's one?

It is in fact DJGPP's 'make' that is trying to run. (It is the only 
one on my machine.) However, I have persisted with this problem and 
found the following.

It seems that under XMS or VCPI memory management, make runs 
beautifully. However, on another machine I had HIMEM.SYS and 
EMM386 NOEMS running and started MAKE under Windows 3.1 (DPMI). This 
hung the machine as described previously. When EMM386 NOEMS was taken 
out, and the same test performed again, MAKE all of a sudden ran 
fine. Putting EMM386 back in again caused MAKE to hang again.

On my machine, even removing EMM386 as just described above, still 
causes my machine to freeze up badly when attempting to run MAKE.
From this I will assume that the problem is unique to my machine, 
which dare I say it is a WANG PC350. However, since MAKE seems to run 
very well in XMS, I am quite satisfied that this is what I have to do 
when working on my machine.


Regards, Ron.


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