From: Alexander Lehmann <lehmann AT mathematik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: v1 versus v2
Date: 12 Dec 1996 13:37:03 GMT
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

: On Tue, 10 Dec 1996, A.Appleyard wrote:

: >   (1) I had v1. After compiling djgpp programs I prefixed not
: > STUB.EXE but the whole of GO32.EXE to A.OUT . The result ran
: > happily under DOS and Windows. But recently I changed to v2. And
: > now, when I call those djgpp programs compiled by v1 from Windows,
: > they refuse to start. But they still start OK from DOS.

: <smile-mode>

: Imagine a post like so:

: I had a perfectly good kettle.  It would boil water and let me drink my
: coffee (sorry, tea in the UK) any time, even when I was running Windows. 
: But now I installed this DJGPP v2 thingy, and my kettle suddenly stopped
: working when I invoke Windows.  It just sits there and does nothing.  WHY 
: DOES DJGPP v2 DEPRIVE ME OF MY COFFEE???

: </smile-mode>

: Seriously, people, don't you think you sometimes overestimate the powers 
: of DJGPP?

Acutally, I think this is really a bug between djgpp1,2 and the DPMI
manager in Windows. At least I noticed that after I run v2 programs,
programs using go32 don't work anymore, probably due to some missing
initialization of the DPMI manager at the exit of a v2 program that
breaks something in the startup code of go32 (maybe float emu or
something).

OTOH, if that happens without running a v2 program previously, it is
probably something with PATH problems or similar.


bye, Alexander

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