Date: Tue, 23 Sep 1997 13:08:50 +0300 (IDT) From: Eli Zaretskii To: Jim Chapman cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: ispell In-Reply-To: <3427233E.676C@sympatico.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Mon, 22 Sep 1997, Jim Chapman wrote: > Eli Zaretskii was right again. When I removed the display.sys from my > config.sys file both ispell and info work with LINES=40 in the djgpp.env > file. Are you using CWSDPMI and no memory manager? I think there's a bug in CWSDPMI when you need to access memory in the UMBs (the 64k region just above 1M mark). Ispell and Info access the BIOS character tables when you want to work in 40-line mode, and DISPLAY.SYS relocates these tables, possibly to upper memory. Please post a complete description of your system setup, including what "mem /c" and go32-v2 print, CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT and the output of the SET command. > However I am now experiencing the problem that the output file has > a length of 0 if I change anything in the text. Does this happen even when you disable LINES=40? If so, there must be something in your system that triggers this bug, since Ispell works for me. > I am running this as a stand alone program not from > within emacs. I tried all combinations of commands and nothing seems to > work. I haven't yet got to trying to get emacs working. Don't try Emacs. The Ispell interface in Emacs currently doesn't work on MS-DOS because it requires ability to run two programs (Emacs and Ispell) concurrently, with a pipe connection between them.