Date: Tue, 30 Mar 1999 17:20:48 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Jeff Williams <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>
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Subject: Re: Paradox v3.5 under bash
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On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Jeff Williams wrote:

> One of the (very) few DOS applications that refuses to run from bash is
> Borland Paradox v3.5.  I get the Paradox startup screen, then the error
> message:
> 	Can't start Paradox: file limit in CONFIG.SYS too low
> then the program exits.

If Paradox is a 16-bit DPMI application (like many Borland's tools), then
it will *never* run under Bash, since the DPMI spec forbids mixing 16- and
32-bit DPMI clients in the same session.  The error message might be
simply bogus.