From:	"Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: problem on a small pc card
Date:	Tue, 5 Dec 2000 23:15:46
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> Anyone care to enlighten us what the bug/feature is?

If you run certain other software which goes into protected mode,
and it doesn't reset the proper values in FS/GS desciptors before returning
to real mode.  TC++ 3.0 was an example cited to me, if you don't have
HIMEM or an EMM loaded.  Some BIOSes Int 15 data move calls?  In 
that case, any code which tries to use FS/GS in real mode will hang.

CWSDPMI was using these "extended" segment registers before swapping
to protected mode.  This was fixed (to use DS/ES only) and it fixed
problems in some environments.

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