To:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
cc:	dan AT verity DOT ICS DOT UCI DOT EDU
Subject:	novice errors? dpmi, info, groff, df
Reply-To:	Dan Hirschberg <dan AT ics DOT uci DOT edu>
Date:	Sun, 16 Mar 1997 11:50:24 -0800
From:	Dan Hirschberg <dan AT verity DOT ICS DOT UCI DOT EDU>
Message-ID:	<9703161150.aa18856@paris.ics.uci.edu>

I am running Windows NT 4.0 on a Pentium Pro 200 with 64Mb RAM and with
a 2G disk.  I installed the various djgpp binaries (obtained from
simtel.net) by dowloading the zip files into c:\djgpp and unzipping them.
Among them: txi390b.zip, gro110b.zip, bnu27b.zip, fil313b.zip, shl112b.zip
I set TMPDIR=c:\tmp
I notice the following problems (among others):

1. When I run go32-v2.exe, it tells me that I have
   DPMI memory available: 27435 Kb
   DPMI swap space available: 0 Kb

   That 0 looks suspicious.  There is likely a serious problem here.

2. When I run info (from a DOS shell), it seems to work fine.
   When I type:       info gcc         it seems to work fine.
   But when I type:   info groff
       I get an error message:  Bad command or file name.

3. df.exe seems unable to handle my large disk.
   It tells me that I have 999968 1024-blocks (adds up to 1G)
   and that I have used 0 of them, when I have 2G disk
   and I have about 1.3G free.

4. groff works pretty well except that I got error messages
   that inform me of a problem in \djgpp\share\groff\tmac\tmac.ps
   Lines 52 and 53 of that file refer to files that have long filenames
   but the system seems not able to find them.
   When I replace the reference to tmac.pspic with the 8.3 compliant
   name (on my system, that turned out to be tmac~1.psp)
   that seemed to bandage the problem.

Any help would be deeply appreciated.

Dan Hirschberg
dan AT ics DOT uci DOT edu

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