Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 06:11:22 -0500 (EST) From: "Jude T. DaShiell" To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: djgpp installation update Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com What I'm about to write now I can't explain. In my mind it's truly weird. I removed the himem.sys device driver from config.sys and once done, everything in djgpp is now talking again. This is microsoft dos 7.10 and my guess is that maybe the himem.sys device driver is loaded whenever emm386.exe is installed from config.sys. Now here comes the part that's like mud. Including the himem.sys device driver may cause an error situation because dos 7.10 allows it to be loaded twice. These device drivers may not be like tsr's in that they don't detect themselves already in memory and refuse to load a second time evidently. I haven't tried running go32-v2 yet but will do that next. After all of this I should probably find out how to run the test suite and interpret those results. It would be better if this version of dos let users know both himem.sys and emm386 were loaded rather than leaving the himem.sys device driver situation so ambiguous. -------------------- jude