Mail Archives: djgpp-workers/1999/05/25/05:05:37
Tested with DOSEMU-0.99.11 (kernel-2.2.9, glibc-2.1, ...) running
MS-DOS 7.1 (one from Win95-OSR2)
I'm getting output from test example:
27
0
It means that __dpmi_yield call fails.
Andris
On 24 May 99, at 22:08, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
> > > Now, I don't know if the problem is with DJGPP or another program.
> > > The relevant program versions are Linux 2.2.9, DosEmu 0.98.4, NWDOS
> > > 7.0, CWSDPMI 0.90+ (r3), DJGPP 2.02, GCC 2.8.1 -- hope I didn't
> > > forget anything. ;-)
> >
> > Perhaps the real cause of the problem is NWDOS? Could you try this
> > with another DOS work-alike, or with MS-DOS?
>
> No, sorry, I don't have another one handy.
>
> > > But if it should be fixed elsewhere, I'd appreciate any pointers to
> > > the correct place to ask.
> >
> > Perhaps you could ask the Linux DOSEmu gurus about this (I don't know
> > the appropriate forum; anybody?). If they say that it should be
> > supported, then perhaps the DOS version is the culprit.
>
> OK, I'll mail it to dosemu-bugs AT dosemu DOT org .
>
> > In any case, it's impossible to revert to the old behavior of issuing
> > INT 2Fh directly. Personally, even doing that for DOSEmu alone
> > (provided that we have a reliable way of detecting it) is not
> > something I would recommend. It is one thing to work around Windows
> > bugs, but doing the same with free software such as DOSEmu where
> > everything should be open to scrutiny and any bugs should be fixable,
> > doesn't sound good.
>
> I see. I just hope it's a problem of DosEmu, not of NWDOS where it
> couldn't be fixed easily.
>
> Frank
>
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