Message-Id: <34B6D46B.2842@lps.u-psud.fr> Date: Fri, 09 Jan 1998 23:52:43 -0200 From: Daniel TAUPIN Reply-To: taupin AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr Organization: CNRS Mime-Version: 1.0 To: DJGPP List , Latex2html list Cc: GUT Distribution List Subject: Serious problems with PERL5.004 under DOS/DJGPP Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Precedence: bulk My trials to implement latex2html under DOS+djgpp are in bad situation. The cause IS the behaviour or PERL 5.004 as provided with gnu/djgpp other packages. In fact, I have been astonished to find that a perl script 'i.e. my attempted implementation of l2h) run OK once, and failed another time (exactly the same). In the failing case, I found out that I had leaved a Netscape active. Then I terminated the Netscape window... and things went Ok (OK meaning with the same behavious as usual, not necessarily correct). In the same may, when I run "perl latex2html" under native DOS it make wrong things (id does not crash) while this are reasonable under the DOS window of dos. But the difference is the amount of XMS under native DOS (4Mbyte) while it is 30Mbyte in the DOS winbdow of windows. ====> All this means that, when PERL54 has memory problems, it DOES NOT say "I have memory problems, abort" , but it just returns a code such as "unable to find a required file"! This mainly occurs with the "require() command, but I have no proof that nothing else can auso fail... Obviously, I state that such a behaviour resulting in randomly results is TERRIBLE since one cannot seriously develop something under djgpp/DOS perl! ====> Question: did somebody experience the same erratic behaviours, and is there a corrected djgpp release? ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Daniel Taupin, Physique des Solides, Univ. Paris-Sud, 91405 ORSAY E-mail= mailto:taupin AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr Tél: (33)1.69.15.60.79, Fax: (33)1.69.15.60.86, home/fax: (33)1.60.10.26.44 ------------------------------------------------------------------------