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Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 10:33:57 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: vim (dos32) hangs under djgpp bash
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On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Pavol Juhas wrote:

> The crash of repeated "vim -c q" never occured when invoked via make, I
> saw it only after running from bash.

Please try from Less as well.  It is very important to understand
whether only Bash has this problem.

> I checked the source code of vim, indeed there are calls to int86()
> and __dpmi_yield() in os_msdos.c.  I tried to comment out the single
> call to __dpmi_yield() and recompile, but it did not help. 
> I guess that leaves int86() as another option to check.

What functions of which interrupts does vim call via int86?

Also, what version of Bash do you use?