Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 16:13:11 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Forsberg Sakari <zacu AT cc DOT tut DOT fi>
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Subject: Re: Does FED has a bug?
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On 27 Oct 1999, Forsberg Sakari wrote:

> Ok, here is the error message symified...
> 
> Exiting due to signal SIGSEGV
> Page fault at eip=0002ba7b, error=0004

This might be a NULL pointer dereference.  If I'm right, it also  
explains why does it work on Windows (Windows doesn't catch such
errors). 

> eax=0010f212 ebx=00000000 ecx=0001d5b1 edx=0000f222 esi=0010f213 edi=00000000
> ebp=000cfb3c esp=000cfaf0 program=C:\DOS/fed.exe
> cs: sel=00e7  base=100a0000  limit=000dffff
> ds: sel=00ef  base=100a0000  limit=000dffff
> es: sel=00ef  base=100a0000  limit=000dffff
> fs: sel=00cf  base=000195a0  limit=0000ffff
> gs: sel=00ff  base=00000000  limit=0010ffff
> ss: sel=00ef  base=100a0000  limit=000dffff
> App stack: [000cfca8..0004fca8]  Exceptn stack: [0004fb78..0004dc38]
> 
> Call frame traceback EIPs:
>   0x0002ba7b _gettextinfo+567
>   0x0002baaf _gettextinfo+619
>   0x0002bb3b _gettextinfo+759
>   0x0002bc70 __set_screen_lines+300

This indicates that the program tries to switch the text screen to some 
non-standard size.  Can you (or someone else who is familiar with FED)
tell why does it do so, and to what screen dimensions does it switch the 
screen?

If the screen dimensions can be controlled via some command-line 
argument, please try different dimensions and see if that helps.

Also, please post the contents of your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files.