Date: Wed, 18 Dec 1996 17:13:54 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: djgpp + allegro + win NT?
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On Tue, 17 Dec 1996, Shawn Hargreaves wrote:

> Jan Hubicka writes:
> >I receiving somme messages that my XaoS 
> >(http://www.paru.cas.cz/~hubicka/XaoS) soes not work under winNT
> >Is this true? Is this djgpp/allegro problem or XaoS problem?
> >Some sollutions?
> 
> I don't have access to NT, so I may be completely mistaken here, but I'd
> be very surprised if it did work. NT doesn't like DOS apps messing

It might be something entirely different.  I'm told that NT doesn't allow 
fat ds, so if you use nearptrs, it might barf.  Another possible cause is 
that the default sbrk algorithm itself needs the fat ds in some cases, so 
on NT it is safer to use the unixy sbrk algorithm.