Date:	Sun, 21 Feb 1999 13:15:34 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Daniel Barker <sokal AT holyrood DOT ed DOT ac DOT uk>
cc:	djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject:	Re: Does Windows 98 lose DMPI descriptors?
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On Thu, 18 Feb 1999, Daniel Barker wrote:

> The BASH script ran slowly and caused many
> page faults, presumably since it involves many program launches

What do you mean ``presumably''?  Why should it crash because of
involving ``many program launches''?  Isn't this already a sign of a
clear trouble?

> BASH, EXPR and TRUE all were DJGPP ports of GNU programs, recently
> downloaded.

Correction: `true' is not a program, it's a shell script.  So invoking
`true' does NOT involve running a subsidiary program.

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