From: Rez <rividh DOT minusthispart AT earthlink DOT net>
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Subject: Re: WARNING: DOS is about to die
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 01:16:50 -0700
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Endlisnis wrote:
..after Rez muttered..
> > there's a bug, the program runs just fine under Win95 in a DOS box 
> > but segviols before it even gets
> > fully loaded under real DOS with CWSDPMI. 

>Dereferencing NULL pointers is NOT caught under Win9x, but IS caught under
> cwsdpmi, so > 90% of these types of issues are caused by null-pointer
> dereferencing.

Ah, thanks. That should greatly ease our debugging efforts.

~REZ~