Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 09:02:53 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: jrubin <jrubin AT bix DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Hard crashes when CWSDPMI not available
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On 15 Jul 1996, jrubin wrote:

> I accidentally ran 'info' without first loading cwsdpmi.exe.
> CWSDPMI.EXE was in my path.

That is how you should generally run Info (or any other DJGPP program).  
You don't have to load CWSDPMI resident at all.

Does this happen for any other DJGPP programs, or just for Info?  If only 
for Info, please post the output of the command "DIR INFO.EXE /-W".

> The result was a loop in which <something> reported <some signal>
> again and again. I haven't found a way to read or save the output
> since it takes a hardware reset to break out of the loop.

Please post the complete details about your system (CONFIG.SYS, 
AUTOEXEC.BAT, the full environment listing, and what does go32-v2 print 
when invoked with no arguments).

Also, try to force Info to display the top-level menu.  To this end, chdir
to the info subdirectory of your DJGPP installation directory and invoke
info.exe like this: 

	info -d . -f dir

Did this work?  If it does, then maybe something's wrong with the way
DJGPP environment variable is set.