Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 10:17:01 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: George Foot <mert0407 AT sable DOT ox DOT ac DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Windows NT
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On 26 May 1997, George Foot wrote:

> This brings up a problem I have had for a very long time; the machines I
> have to use to access the internet (like now) do not have DJGPP on them.
> To compile programs I have been using DJ's web based compiler. However,
> attempting to run programs frequently fails. One of four things happens:
> either the program runs fine, or it gives the standard traceback
> information, or it makes Windows 95 barf and close the DOS box, or (most
> strange of all) it does nothing - no error, no output, nothing.

Does this ever happen with programs that you compile on your
development system and bring to that Windows 95 box, or is it only
true for what you get from DJ's server?

> The connection to what Paul's saying is that I know the program is correct
> (it's the simple "Hello, World!\n" example that's in the compiler
> initially, with the #include corrected), yet I still sometimes get the
> regular DJGPP-style traceback.

Please post such a traceback.  This has never happen to me with
programs that I bring to Windows 95 machines to test LFN-related
issues.