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From: jrubin AT bix DOT com (jrubin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Hard crashes when CWSDPMI not available
Date: 17 Jul 1996 03:04:37 GMT
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I have exchanged email with sandmann and eliza about this problem.
Both of you will receive further email in a few hours.
The following might help:

 40 Mhz 386 without '387
 DOS 6.20   4DOS 5.0
 4 Meg of memory
 No TSR's or funny device drivers except for
   HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.SYS

The problem definitely is dependant on the order in which programs
that use DPMI services are run.
If INFO.EXE is the first program to use DPMI, the crash occurs.
Running GCC or MAKE or GREP before INFO seems to prevent the crash.
Explicitly loading CWSDPMI: I thought this helped, but without
logging *everything*, I can't be certain anymore. Too confused.

I obtained my copy of INFO.EXE from Delorie.com's web interface
that allows individual files to be downloaded from the .zip file.
It has length 155648.

Josh Rubin