Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 17:53:23 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Peter Louvel <P DOT Louvel AT qut DOT edu DOT au>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: IIS
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On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Peter Louvel wrote:

> but when I run it on the server from netscape 
>    /cgi-bin/testb.exe
> 
> I get
> 
>     HTTP/1.0 500 Server Error (The handle is invalid.) 
> 
> which tells me the code is not 32bit (thats what the iis doc's say)
> 
> I thought GCC was a 32bit compiler.. if so why isn't it comiling 32bit.

It's most probable that Netscape needs a native Win32 application.  DJGPP 
generates 32bit code, but it looks like a DOS application on the oustide 
(it switches to 32-bit protected mode at runtime, and needs DPMI server 
to run).