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From: William Nolan <wnolan+@andrew.cmu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Serious V2 beta bug...
Date: Sat, 9 Sep 1995 18:38:15 -0400
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.msdos.djgpp: 6-Sep-95 Re: Serious V2 beta
bug... by Charles Sandmann AT praline 
> Please check out the routines being used; if there are any HW interrupts
> involved which don't lock every byte of memory, please notify the author to 
> remove them from public distribution as they are a bomb waiting to
nuke a disk.

What you said makes sense -- maybe I should clarify what I was compiling
at the time, so you might be able to get a better idea of who was the
culprit.  I was (in BOTH cases, here) writing a program that used the
SB_LIB and the XLIB .a includes.  Having only taken a cursory look
through both, I can't tell you if they locked memory up okay.  It
*looked* like the SB_LIB actually did some locking, I didn't check out
the XLIB stuff, so I don't know.  Are the authors of these two libraries
(the XLIB being a conversion from Borland, anyway) reading this
newsgroup?


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