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Date: Sun, 1 Jun 1997 16:16:50 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "Michael D. Ryan" <dbrotherhood AT geocities DOT com>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Problem spawning Pmode/w !!!
In-Reply-To: <338e5112.3875299@usenet.nau.edu>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970601161620.24182I-100000@is>
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On Fri, 30 May 1997, Michael D. Ryan wrote:

> I had a program that ran fine under Win95 (Dos shell) but would not
> run with CWSDPMI.  Everytime I ran it with cws, I got GPF at different
> places in my program.  I tested it thoroughly under win95 and could
> not get even 1 gpf.

CWSDPMI catches some bugs (such as NULL pointer dereferences) that
other DPMI hosts silently ignore.  I have found that it is always
worthwhile to test a program under CWSDPMI, if I want to avoid
embarrassment.

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