From: "Edmund Horner" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp References: Subject: Re: They do NOT run the same! W95/DOS! Lines: 37 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Organization: Paradise Net Ltd. Customer Message-ID: <962113704.228207@shelley.paradise.net.nz> Cache-Post-Path: shelley.paradise.net.nz!unknown AT 203-79-65-99 DOT tnt8 DOT paradise DOT net DOT nz X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b2 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 01:48:43 +1200 NNTP-Posting-Host: 203.96.152.26 X-Complaints-To: newsadmin AT xtra DOT co DOT nz X-Trace: news.xtra.co.nz 962113722 203.96.152.26 (Wed, 28 Jun 2000 01:48:42 NZST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2000 01:48:42 NZST To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Mouse: You need to have a mouse driver loaded in DOS for it to work, usually called MOUSE.COM or similar. Unfortunately they can be hard to find with the advent of Windows. File-finding: It may have something to do with LFN support -- try looking in the FAQ about it, I don't know exactly what the problem might be, but I suspect you might have to set a flag somewhere before using findfirst() etc. Edmund. > Why is it I find that most things compiled from a Win95 DOS shell > appear to work just fine... if allegro is used, the graphics and mouse > support is perfect.... > do into pure MS-DOS 6.22 and try to run the EXACT same program > and you get CORE-DUMPS and the MOUSE will HANG-THE-COMPUTER! > > How can I be certain that my programs REMAIN DOS FRIENDLY ALL THE > TIME. NON of my projects will ever require Win95 !! > > 1) most heard complaint I am getting: > the program hangs. Problem appears to be directly related to > whether Allegro MOUSE support is compiled in or not. > OBSERVATION:if running from a Win95 DOS-SHELL...theres NO PROBLEM! > > 2) second heard complaint: > trying to generate a list of files in a directory goes well,. > but when trying to find_first/find_next the names are either > not found, or attempting to strupr/strlrw results retuned by > find_first/next causes a CORE-DUMP.... > HOWEVER:the file-find_first/next works PERFECTLY if you > run from a Win95 DOS-SHELL! > what gives?