Date: Sun, 6 Sep 1998 12:44:44 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Rylan <rylan AT inbtekom DOT co DOT za>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Regarding TP6 & DJGPP
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On Mon, 3 Aug 1998, Rylan wrote:

> I use my TP6 IDE to write the text files I use when coding with DJGPP. The
> interesting thing is that if I open a DOS box (W95) and then run a DJGPP
> compiled program, and then after that try to start the TP6 IDE, I crash the
> DOS box.
> However, if I run the TP6 IDE FiRsT, after opening the W95 DOS box, I can
> then freely run DJGPP programs, compile, restart the TP6 IDE, etc.
> 
> Why?

Probably a combination of bugs in TP6 IDE and in Windows 95 DPMI
server.  TP6 is a 16-bit DPMI program, and it probably doesn't clean
up correctly on exit.

Don't use buggy software, especially if you cannot get its sources to fix 
the bugs.  IMHO, TP6 sucks as a programmer's editor. If you like its look 
and feel, try RHIDE which should be very similar.  At least with RHIDE 
you have the sources to correct any bugs, and its maintainers are much 
more responsive to bug reports than Borland will ever be ;-).

Of course, there are a lot of good free editors floating around, but
that's another story.