Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/03/12/05:15:24
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.
There are two things I can add:
As others have described, after executing an external command (such
as ls), I get a new bash prompt and then the system fails to respond
to keyboard input. 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.
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
(and then bash prints its prompt and hangs).
If it's relevant, I have 16 MB of physical RAM.
I didn't do anything special to install bash. djgpp was already
installed and working, so I just unzipped bash.exe into the
djgpp/bin directory.
Thanks in advance for any help or suggestions you can provide. It
would really be nice to get bash running.
Mitchell
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> On Thu, 5 Mar 1998, HANRIGOU Philippe wrote:
>
> > I've seen Control Panel's "System General" tab and run the 'ver'
> > command: It seams that my version is 4.00.950. I've got no beta version
> > or release indication (as "-r7").
>
> So it's not the Windows version.
>
> > As you can see the traceback is very similar to Eric Kidd's one: DS is
> > trash and SS is invalid. What a mess!
>
> Yep.
>
> > I've tried but I've got no DPMI server! Should I get csdpmi*b.zip as
> > suggested in the error message, and install it?
>
> Yes, definitely. CWSDPMI is not used when you run from Windows, so you
> can install it without any problems to you.
>
> > Note that, of course, "echo hello | foo" works perfectly from the dos
> > shell.
>
> Actually, I meant to run these programs from the DOS shell, not from Bash.
> I wanted to see whether just reading keyboard input freezes the system. I
> guess the answer is NO.
>
> Btw, how do you launch Bash? Do you open a DOS box, and then type
> "bash [Enter]" from the DOS prompt? If not, please try running Bash
> that way and see if it helps. You could also invoke COMMAND.COM from
> Bash, and try running DJGPP programs from there and see if that helps.
>
> Also, what does go32-v2 print when you run it in the same DOS box where
> you run Bash?
>
> Another thing to check: if your system loads programs at startup, close
> all of them and then run Bash.
>
> > Maybe I could download a 'ready to test' version of bash compiled with
> > "-g" option. Do you know where I could find that?.
>
> I don't think there is such a version available anywhere.
>
> If none of the above gives a clue, please post your configuration files
> (CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, and the output of the command "set" at the
> DOS/Bash prompt).
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