Date: Sun, 8 Jun 1997 18:21:26 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Xiao <xiao AT pcmath126 DOT unice DOT fr>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DJGPP binaries obsolete for dosemu 0.66? (correction)
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On Wed, 4 Jun 1997, Xiao wrote:

> Solution of the problem found after help from dosemu people:
> 
>     If I set `secure off' in the configure file /etc/dosemu.conf 
>     (or ~/.dosrc), djgpp works fine for all the new versions of
> dosemu.

Thanks, this will be in the next release of the FAQ.

> In fact the ``secure on/off'' is a new feature of dosemu dpmi server
> since version 0.66.2, to put more checking on program behavior. I
> don't know the details, but maybe it is not a bad idea to make
> programs compatible with this more strict dpmi checking for the next
> release of djgpp.

Please ask the DOSEmu people exactly what does this ``secure'' feature
check.  It is impossible to correct this problem without knowing what
is it in DJGPP that this feature doesn't like.