Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 08:36:52 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: PENG ZHOU <pengzh AT ix DOT netcom DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Crash after running...??
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On 22 Jul 1996, PENG ZHOU wrote:

>     I've been expriencing some thing like this:  After the compilation,
> the a.out is produced.  Are you suppose to convert it using coff2exe?
> or stubify?  Any way, after converting it, I tried to make it run.  But
> it crashes living windows with a message like illegal operation and
> have to restart dos again.  The executable runs OK with go32, but not
> without.  What is wrong????

You are trying to run a COFF file, and DOS doesn't know how to do it, so 
it boldly goes into the never-never land.  You should convert the COFF 
file into a DOS executable by running COFF2EXE on it.  This is all 
explained in the DJGPP FAQ list (v1/faq102.zip from the same place you 
get DJGPP).