Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 08:36:52 +0200 (IST) From: Eli Zaretskii To: PENG ZHOU Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: Crash after running...?? In-Reply-To: <4t10gq$5t8@sjx-ixn6.ix.netcom.com> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On 22 Jul 1996, PENG ZHOU wrote: > I've been expriencing some thing like this: After the compilation, > the a.out is produced. Are you suppose to convert it using coff2exe? > or stubify? Any way, after converting it, I tried to make it run. But > it crashes living windows with a message like illegal operation and > have to restart dos again. The executable runs OK with go32, but not > without. What is wrong???? You are trying to run a COFF file, and DOS doesn't know how to do it, so it boldly goes into the never-never land. You should convert the COFF file into a DOS executable by running COFF2EXE on it. This is all explained in the DJGPP FAQ list (v1/faq102.zip from the same place you get DJGPP).