From: fredex AT fcshome DOT stoneham DOT ma DOT us
Message-Id: <199607151019.GAA00705@fcshome.stoneham.ma.us>
Subject: Re: go-32 and Linux DOSEMU
To: tome AT theden DOT com
Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 06:19:46 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <199607132141.RAA11765@portal.dx.net> from "tome@THEDEN.COM" at Jul 13, 96 04:40:48 pm
Content-Type: text

Thinking furiously, tome AT THEDEN DOT COM wrote:
> 
> FR>I don't seem to HAVE a programnamed CWSPARAM.EXE, no anything similar.
> 
>        Cwsparam.exe is zipped up with version 2 of cwsdpmi which can be
> gotten from the same place that you got the original.

OK, I found it, pulled downthe new archive.

of course, since DOSEMU doesn't even USE cwsdpmi as it's dpmi provider
it makes no difference to my original issue.

But, as it happens, now that I'm usinig the new CWSDPMI, another problem
I was having has disappeared. Might it have been a CWSDPMI bug?

I was working on compiling BEAV with djgpp (FYI, BEAV, which stands for
Binary Editor And Viewer really NEEDS to be compiled with djgpp, since
it otherwise can't edit large files because lower memory may just not be
big enough). I had gotten it to where it appeared to work, then I 
constructed a 6-mb file for testing, and found that sometimes seemingly
benign commands caused a segmentation violation. Couldn't figure it out.
But when I upgraded to the new CWSDPMI the entire problem went away.

A nice bonus of porting the program to djgpp is that by the time I got
through adapting the display-management code to djgpp's libc facilities
for displaying text it SCREAMS--when compiled wiht -O2 it's vastly faster
at scrolling through the file than the MSC-compiled version I've been
using.

Congrats on the good work, DJ, Charles, and the rest of the gang!

Fred

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