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Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 22:06:33 -0500
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From: Paul Derbyshire <pderbysh AT usa DOT net>
Subject: Re: executible formats
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At 04:50 PM 2/3/99 GMT, you wrote:
>Took the same module with the int 33h call and assembled to WIN32
>(OBJ) and linked with MSVC(either 4.2 or 5.0, I forget) compiled fine,
>but execution locked up the machine with a black screen (really
>scarry).  Am I bumping into something new?

No, you're bumping into something that's at least 7 years old. It's a very
nasty beast of a bug, which goes by the obscure name "Windows".

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