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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT inti DOT gov DOT ar>
Organization: INTI
To: "Paul G. La Marre" <pglamarr AT up DOT net>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 1998 14:46:46 +0000
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Subject: Re: RHIDE/GXX WinNt4
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"Paul G. La Marre" <pglamarr AT up DOT net> wrote:

*** I'm sending a copy to the group because that's a very important stuff ***

> At 10:25 AM 9/30/98 +0000, you wrote:
> >"Paul G. La Marre" <pglamarr AT up DOT net> wrote:
> >
> >> I am having some problems with Rhide/GCC/GXX 2.81.
> >> 
> >> 1) Rhide aborts with illegal inst. if run from desktop shortcut.
> >
> >Does it work if you run it from the DOS BOX?
> 
> Note point 2 DOS Window not a "DOS box".
> NO -- mouse not active.  Does respond to keyboard but have not tried to use
> to any extent since my need calls for mouse access.
> 
> Running from a DOS boot, sometimes works other times not. See point 4.

Last night I tried NT4 and something is very wrong in NT. 
---
First: The machine is OK, I can run Linux perfectly, compiled the Linux 
kernel many times, used intensive CPU and disk programs and all works ok. 
Additionally: NT is installed just some days ago, only Service Pack is 
installed and no other Windows application is installed in the partition so 
isn't a damaged DLL or wrong version of a DLL. The only extra driver I'm 
using is the video driver and it could affect, but I think isn't the problem.
---

As this machine doesn't have Floppy or CD-ROM I used a network connection to 
download djgpp from a CD in my other machine. I installed DJGPP and gcc 
doesn't crash making a silly text.
But while copying the files I opened a DOS window (From the start button) and 
loaded Norton Commander. I left it in background (windowed) and followed with 
the copy, a few seconds latter when I tried to select the Norton Window I 
got a GPF report about the DOS box executing an invalid instruction. It was 
before installing djgpp.
Then I installed djgpp and tried RHIDE, as many users reported the first time 
RHIDE doesn't run and you get the "DOS" prompt, that's because a GPF (I 
captured the GPF, the stack looks corrupted or outside the application, I 
must analyze it). The second try works (?!). But no very well, here are some 
strange things I experimented:

1) Running the program in full screen the program behaves much better.
2) Switching the task (fullscreen -> NT desktop -> fullscreen) some times 
generates a GPF.
3) Running in a window and switching to other task sometimes I can get a GPF 
just clicking in the window where RHIDE/SETEdit is working.
4) The mouse problem is probably an exception inside the mouse emulator 
provided by NT (note: I'm loading a mouse driver, is just NT emulating the 
mouse service). I saw similar problems with buggy mouse drivers and graphic 
programs running under DOS some years ago.  After many runs I got "Division 
Overflow" from the editor and I think it was in the mouse driver.
5) After running RHIDE or SETEdit the mouse doesn't work for Norton 
Commander.

I'll try to see the source of problems but isn't a djgpp specific thing 
because I got a similar problem with NC (less frequent).

> >> 2) Mouse not active if Rhide run from DOS Window.
> >> 
> >> 3) GPP download lib say lib problem ( downloaded from multiple mirror
> >> sites).
> >
> >Be more specific, what program says that.
> 
> Program: unzip386 running under DOS ( not DOS window ) --
>
> 	unzip386 -d gpp281b.zip 
> 
> All sites tried download smaller file than size listed.  File size
> downloaded is 1252kb which is in the right range against listed 1,281,235.

.ZIP files uses CRC checking if you don't get a CRC error the file is OK.
  

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