Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/03/15/08:11:34
On Thu, 12 Mar 1998, Mitchell Spector wrote:
> I just downloaded bash, and I'm having exactly the same problem.
> (I've had no difficulties at all with djgpp.) I'm running
> Windows 95 version 4.00.950a, with "Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95".
> bash hangs for me in the same way as has been described here. If I
> start up in DOS, though, bash seems to work fine.
Please post the same system information that Philippe posted. I would
like to look for common peculiarities in your two configurations.
> What I noticed was that if I type 16 characters
> (getting no apparent response at all), the system then starts to beep
> at each character typed, as if I had exceeded the length of an
> input buffer.
That would mean that Bash is busy-waiting, stuck in some endless loop
waiting for something. But the BIOS keyboard handler still works,
which is why you get the beeps when the keyboard typeahead buffer
fills.
> The other thing that might be related is that I'm quite low on
> hard drive space. go32-v2 executed within bash reports:
> DPMI memory available: 9335 Kb
> DPMI swap space available: 13065 Kb
This is not low enough to expect problems in Bash.
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