Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 07:49:46 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Owen <owen AT gememail DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP wont run under DOS
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On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Owen wrote:

> I have been using DJGPP V2.0 since it was in beta4 or something, under
> both dos and win95, without any problems, but recently it has stopped
> running under dos. It always says out of conventional memeory when i
> try and run the compiled programs, eventhough I had 612K free! under
> win 95 with 580K free my programs run fine, so I assume its something
> to do with the extemder?

Try to install CWSDPMI again from the original zip archive (and get the 
latest v2 of CWSDPMI).  It seems like the old version is corrupted or 
infected by a virus.

> Also I have a virus detection program called TBAV which keeps on
> saying all my DJGPP files are infected with a virus since they have
> code to check if files are EXE/COM, is this normal?

Som losing/extra careful antivirus programs are known to say such things 
about DJGPP programs, because they have rather unusual startup code.