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To:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Dear Eli Zaretskii,

In response to your conjecture regarding the topic
      "DJGPP 2.02 fails immediately on FPU-less machine !"

K.B. Williams

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> I did that almost immediately after sending the letter.  I changed the
> global definitions of DJDIR and DJGPP and picked up from where the make
> had quit.  It went to the end.  Later, I started from the top, used the
> shell script to change the global definitions, and it quit by hanging my
> entire system.  TWICE.
> 
> After some annoying restarts, I discovered that if I work without Windows
> 3.1 the make goes from front to back.

This is a Microsoft problem.  Their DPMI servers leak, and there's
nothing we can do to work around it.  It leaks too fast for a full
build to succeed; you just have to keep restarting it until it makes
it through.

cwsdpmi doesn't have this problem, of course, so it works under DOS.

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