Mail Archives: djgpp/1999/03/30/10:36:53
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Jeff Williams wrote:
> One of the (very) few DOS applications that refuses to run from bash is
> Borland Paradox v3.5. I get the Paradox startup screen, then the error
> message:
> Can't start Paradox: file limit in CONFIG.SYS too low
> then the program exits.
If Paradox is a 16-bit DPMI application (like many Borland's tools), then
it will *never* run under Bash, since the DPMI spec forbids mixing 16- and
32-bit DPMI clients in the same session. The error message might be
simply bogus.
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