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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <9608061559.AA10749@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: Transfer buffer usage in `spawnXX'
To: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
Date: Tue, 6 Aug 1996 10:59:51 -0600 (CDT)
Cc: k3040e4 AT c210 DOT edvz DOT uni-linz DOT ac DOT at, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960806083357.14109E-100000@is> from "Eli Zaretskii" at Aug 6, 96 08:38:01 am

> That's different in every DPMI server.  The problem is that you are out 
> of DOS memory (and you should see a message from the stub to that 
> effect).  That is what I see whenever I try such things.  The stub is 
> optimized for size, so it doesn't always have robust error recovery.

Actually, the problem he showed was a CWSDPMI BUG which doesn't check for
those sorts of things at all.  I think it's fixed in r3wip, but I need to
some extensive tests before releasing it, since it has lots of changes.

I also have a copy of pmode 1.1 to test at the same time; they will 
probably get released when I finish testing.

I have tested the stub in low/no memory environments and it seems to do OK.

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