From:	brk AT mail DOT eclipse DOT net (Brian Kennedy)
Subject:	DJGPP Invalid Page Exception in W98SE
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Date:	Wed, 22 Aug 2001 02:26:42 GMT
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I apologize if this is in a FAQ somewhere, but I've searched and can't find the answer.

I am trying to learn C++ programming and have downloaded and installed the DJGPP and rhide (and some other)
.ZIP files suggested by the ZIP picker, and added the PATH statements in config.sys.  These are the files I
installed (in c:\djgpp\):

alleg312.zip
bnu2112b.zip
djdev203.zip
faq230b.zip
fil40s.zip
gcc2953b.zip
gpp2953b.zip
grx243s.zip
mak3791b.zip
rh1478b.zip
rsxdj151.zip
txi40b.zip

My problem is that I can't compile anything, including my first "Hello World" program.  I get an error
message "... illegal operation and will be terminated ... invalid page exception, fault location:
0028:65742F65 ..."  This message comes up when trying to compile from rhide or from the DOS command line with
gpp.  I've tried making a "protected memory" DOS prompt, but it doesn't help.  I'm running W98SE with 384MB
RAM, PIII550, not much of anything running in the Windows background.

I don't know much about DOS, but I'm guessing this is a memory allocation problem(?) and probably isn't
DJGPP-specific.  I haven't had trouble running any other DOS programs, though, in a window or not.  Any help
would be appreciated!

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Brian Kennedy
brk AT eclipse DOT net 

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