From:	p DOT steiner AT t-online DOT de (Peter Steiner)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: OpenDos acting up...
Date:	11 Jul 1997 19:08:13 GMT
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On 10 Jul 97 10:08:30 MET, Gautier <Gautier DOT DeMontmollin AT maths DOT unine DOT ch> wrote:

>The problem is actually with the DPMI built in OpenDOS' EMM386.
>Once you turn that DPMI server down, all DJGPP programs (GCC itself,
>MAKE, GNAT (the Ada compiler which uses GCC's back-end), GNATMAKE,
>the game QUAKE, etc.) launch the DPMI server which comes with DJGPP:
>CWSDPMI, as they would do under MS-DOS (MS-DOS hasn't a DPMI server...).
>All these program work fine under OpenDOS once the built-in DPMI is off
>(DPMI=OFF as parameter for EMM386 in config.sys). 
>
>The reason, one says, is that OpenDOS' DPMI is a v0.9 DPMI and
>the GCC programs use v1.0 features; the problem should disappear
>in the next version of OpenDOS.

I installed OpenDos over NovellDos and wasn't able to run DJGPP anymore.
Ok, the programs actually run but on exit the whole system crashed.
I switched back to Novell DPMS and EMM386 and the problem vanished.

Peter Steiner
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