Mail Archives: djgpp/1998/08/18/10:47:02
Several people have complained that Less wedges the DOS box on their
machines when e.g. run from RHIDE or another DJGPP program.
This was traced to a bug in one of the Windows 95 modules that is present
on some rare system configurations. On these systems, calling the
library function __dpmi_yield (which releases the rest of its time slice
to the Windows scheduler) causes the DOS box to hang.
DJGPP v2.02 will have a modified version of __dpmi_yield that works
around that bug. I have now rebuilt Less with the modified version of
__dpmi_yield and uploaded the new lss332b.zip archive to SimTel.NET, in
the v2gnu directory. (The source distribution lss332s.zip was not
changed, since there are no source-level changes in Less.)
If you work on Windows 9X and use Less, I suggest to download this
updated distribution, even though the risk of bumping into this
particular bug is extremely low.
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