From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: The weirdest DJGPP problem ever!
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2000 10:44:55 +0200
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On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, hellbaron wrote:

> OK..so I previously posted a message saying I couldnt run my
> programs out of Windows.. well here is what I found out.. It so
> happens that my windows dosbox runs some tsrs automaticly with a
> batch file, tsrs such as DOSKEY, ANSi.com, etc... The fact is
> that I cannot run any DJGPP compiled programs weather it is in
> windows or DOS without first running another program.. Let me
> explain... lets say I am at DOS prompt (not DOSBOX in windows)
> and I try to run fractal.exe, it reportst a page fault and
> exits.. now, if I first execute the edit program and edit any
> file (ei. edit foo.txt), even if i dont modify the file, and
> then exit edit and run fractal.exe again it runs perfectly
> without reporting erros.. any guesses as to what is causing this.

There might be some confusion here.  Do *all* DJGPP programs crash
with a Page Fault when run first in the DOS box?  Does this include
GCC and other programs supplied with the various *b.zip packages you
downloaded from SimTel.NET?  Or are the crashes limited to the
programs you yourself wrote and compiled on your system?

Also, please post here the complete SYMIFY'ed crash message from one
of these crashes, it might reveal some important clues.