Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/09/17/13:28:15
Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Sep 1997, Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET) wrote:
>
> > > : Craig Berry wrote:
> > > : >
> > > : > I am running MS-DOS 6.22 (Windows 3.10)
> > > : ^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > : This might be the problem. I will see, if I can
> > > : reproduce (and of course fix) it.
> > >
> > > It appears you're correct. I recently had to rebuild my system following
> > > a head crash, and somehow forgot to reinstall win32s. Having done that
> > > (for another reason), I now find the RHIDE debugger works properly. So,
> > > unless you want to protect other folks who don't have win32s, you can
> > > ignore or defer this report. Perhaps a note in the doc that win32s is
> > > required would suffice.
> > I saw this problem in a machine with Win32s v1.25 too. I didn't saw
> > the problem in a machine with Win32s 1.3. I can't say if that's
> > directly related.
>
> I'm not sure if this is the same problem, but I had user reports which
> seem to indicate that Windows 3.11 (not 3.10, which I think doesn't
> exist)
I don't understand the sentence in paretheses, do you really think that Win
3.10 doesn't exists?. If yes, it DOES exists.
> with 32-bit File Access enables
That's a feature of 3.11, 3.10 only supports it for the swap file, not for the
whole disk.
> *and* Win32s installed--these
> two together cause the DJGPP-compiled Emacs to trigger a GPF. Either
> disabling 32BFA or uninstalling Win32s would make these problems go
> away, in the case of Emacs.
So seems that some thing is sure: Win32s replaces the disk access routines.
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