Date:	Wed, 12 Mar 1997 08:32:25 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To:	Ville Sjoberg <ville DOT sjoberg AT swipnet DOT se>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: file max sizes?
In-Reply-To:	<5g4i4c$5f0@mn5.swip.net>
Message-ID:	<Pine.SUN.3.91.970312083049.3808D-100000@is>
MIME-Version:	1.0

On Wed, 12 Mar 1997, Ville Sjoberg wrote:

> SIGSEGV is not even a DOS error message, as far as I know, but an Unix
> one. It supposedly stands for "signal: segment violation". That is --
> your program has tried to write to a memory segment without write
> permission.

That's close, but not exactly what SIGSEGV means in DJGPP.  The real 
meaning of this signal in DJGPP is documented in the C library 
reference.  Type the following from the DOS prompt to read the docs:

	info libc alpha signal

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