From: oml1 AT Ra DOT MsState DOT Edu (Owen LaGarde)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: DJGPP 2.01 + OpenDOS = total clusterfuck
Date: 2 May 1997 15:12:58 GMT
Organization: Mississippi State University
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    I've been coding under a variety of OSs for quite some time, and
just recently decided to try djgpp 2.01 ... unfortunately, I was also
trying out Caldera's OpenDOS as well.  I have truly never seen a bigger
mess than this:  with a 486DX4/100-16M station, 6M temp and 4M swap,
I dropped in grx20 off the simtel dist site (djgpp/v2tk/grx20.zip).
It built with no evident problems, but upon experimenting, I found that
running ANY executable corrupted seemingly random high-mem blocks, usually
resulting in the top shell crapping out.  It's so interesting to follow
installation instruction to the letter only to see the following:

   1) <run some djgpp-produced exe>
   2) program exits (cleanly?)
   3) that's odd, everything's "file not found"... oh, the path is clobbered
   4) "dir" returns no entries for all drives attempted
   5) reboot
   6) scan -- nothing
   7) chkdsk reports lost clusters over all files "accessed" in (3)
   8) chkdsk /f locks
   9) reboot by floppy
   10) scan -- nothing
   11) reboot
   12) boot sector corrupted -- fdisk /mbr
   13) reboot
   14) partition table for volume containing djgpp root is corrupted
   15) fdisk, reboot, format, long re-install..., boot boot boot boot boot

What fresh hell is this?!?  I'll try PC DOS 6.2 when I get a chance after
work, but has anyone seen anything even remotely like this, or had any
success with 2.01 and OpenDOS?
-- 

                                  "... Oh, what a Tangled Web ..."
   Owen LaGarde
   lagarde AT walt DOT cs DOT msstate DOT edu