Date: Mon, 17 Jul 1995 20:48:10 -0400
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
To: A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk
Cc: DJGPP AT SUN DOT SOE DOT CLARKSON DOT EDU
Subject: Re: Bad craziness in STRIP


>   This runs OK. But just now I tried this .BAT file (version 2):-
> 
> call gcc main.o cc.o em.o display.o macros.o keyf.o -lpc
> call strip a.out
> copy /B c:\djgpp\bin\go32.exe + a.out emacsstr.exe
> del a.out
> 
>   to strip the symbols out of the A.OUT on the way to save space.
>   But both times I called version 2, my PC spontaneously <<<<re-booted>>>>.
>   I then typed the instructions of version 2 one by one myself, and they all
> worked as expected.

DJGPP Version 2 doesn't use go32.  You MUST use the stubify program
that comes with version 2 to make an .exe out of a coff file.  Version
2 comes with a coff2exe batch file that calls stubify.