Date: Wed, 13 Sep 1995 17:58:59 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: dgardner AT mcsilo DOT ilo DOT dec DOT com
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Problem with Texinfo and QDPMI


On Tue, 12 Sep 1995 dgardner AT mcsilo DOT ilo DOT dec DOT com wrote:

> PROBLEM: INFO.EXE (from txi360b-beta3.zip) crashes immediately when QDPMI
> is loaded and is fine when I type CWSDPMI before running it (even when
> QDPMI has been loaded on boot-up).  Each time I go to run it, I have to
> reload CWSDPMI.  Everything else seems to work okay (although I haven't
> tried much as I've only used v2b3 for a few hours so far.)

I work under QDPMI all the time, including with Texinfo 3.6 (for whose 
port to DJGPP I am responsible), and never had any problems.  There are 
three things I can suggest:

	1) Get the latest patch #3 of QEMM 7.5 from the Quarterdeck's ftp 
site (ftp://qdeck.com/pub/qemm/patch/qpat3.exe), which solved some 
problems (in particular, the DJGPP debuggers would crash under previous 
versions of QDPMI).

	2) If that won't help, it can be that the problem is with the 
setup of your system, either with your VGA card or some resident software 
(TSR or device driver).  Try unloading some of these resident programs 
and/or load the UNIVBE program which solves many problems with VGA 
cards.  Also, if you set the INFO_COLORS or INFO_LINES variables, try 
without them.

	3) It also can be that there is a genuine bug in the ported Info 
program (it's beta, after all).  So if nothing else helps, please post 
the stack dump which is printed when the program crashes, and tell some 
more details about the crash.  You can even download the source 
distribution, compile the program and run SYMIFY on the stack dump; you 
will then know exactly which source line in which source file caused the 
crash.