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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: CWSDPMI Question
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 16:36:40 CST
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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> I have two machines running which have absolutely the same djgpp-directories
> all environment is properly set up! Everything works fine,...
> but on one machine cwsdpmi is automaticly loaded on the other it is not!

The stub.asm in V2 determines where it tries to find CWSDPMI.  If there
is strangeness in the path variable, or fragmented memory, the load may
fail.  In any case, if it fails and you think it should work, you should
post a detailed bug report (preferably to http://www.delorie.com).

> I once experienced on the machine where cwsdpmi is loaded automaticly, that
> when there are two colons in sequence in the PATH cwsdpmi will not be loaded!

The path processing code isn't very sophisticated, so if there is 
weirdness there might be problem.  For development, this is easy, fix the
path.  For distribution, it should always find CWSDPMI in the distribution
directory so it won't look at the path.