Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 17:38:40 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP and Win2000
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> Date: Mon, 09 Oct 2000 12:50:18 +0200
> From: taupin <taupin AT lps DOT u-psud DOT fr>
> 
>  I have been said by Eli Z. that there was a "bug" in Win2000 which
> prevented "bash" from working.

It doesn't prevent Bash from working.  It only prevents you from
running DJGPP programs from other DJGPP programs under Bash.  In other
words, Bash will work and invoking DJGPP programs from Bash will work,
but if you invoke Less from Bash, and then run a DJGPP program from
within Less (using the `!' command), NTVDM will crash.

> Questions:
>   1. Is that a bug, or a "feature"?

Since no one has yet produced a full report about what exactly causes
the DOS box to crash, we don't really know.  For all I know, it could
be even some subtle DJGPP bug.

Thanks to Charles Sandmann (who worked on this for a while), we do
know that this is somehow related to hooking hardware interrupts
and/or exceptions in nested DPMI programs, but it's not clear what
exactly is the problem there.

Someone (tm) with enough motivation and persistence needs to do the
footwork of stepping through the offending code and trying various
non-standard builds of DJGPP programs such as Make, to find out the
exact reason of the crashes.

>   2. if (bug) {is there a patch provided by M$ or anybody else}?

Patch from Microsoft to make DOS users happy? Ha!