From: mbenkmann AT gmx DOT de (Matthias Benkmann)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: rhide does nothing
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:23:20 GMT
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>> I don't know if this information is very useful but when I started it
>> under an old version of Turbo Debugger, ran it and interrupted it
>> after a while with Ctrl-Break, I found it executing the same loop over
>> and over.
>
>You shouldn't run RHIDE (or any other DJGPP program) under a real-mode
>debugger such as TD.  It won't tell anything useful, since the DJGPP
>code is in extended memory which TD cannot access.

I know that, but as I said in my problem description, the hang occurs
even under plain DOS (plain meaning real-mode w/o any drivers) without
an abort, reset or error message so I guess the problem occurs _before
the program even tries_ to enter PM or tests for DPMI presence.
Riddle me this. MSB