Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 03:45:37 -0400 (EDT)
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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT delorie DOT com>
To: Joseph Morris <doug-15 AT bigfoot DOT com>
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	Thu, 20 Apr 2000 20:00:38 +0100)
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> From: Joseph Morris <doug-15 AT bigfoot DOT com>
> Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
> Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2000 20:00:38 +0100
> > 
> > > cs: sel=00a7  base=10000000  limit=010cffff
> > > ds: sel=00af  base=10000000  limit=010cffff
> > > es: sel=00af  base=10000000  limit=010cffff
> > > fs: sel=00c7  invalid
> > > gs: sel=00bf  base=00000000  limit=0010ffff
> > > ss: sel=00af  base=10000000  limit=010cffff
> > 
> > Wow!  The FS selector is invalid!  Do you have any idea why?  Does
> > SEER use the FS register?  If so, you want to check your code to make
> > sure you don't use FS in a way that interferes with SEER's usage.
> 
> I don't change the FS register in any of my code.  SEER might but I
> haven't checked.  Interestingly, if CTRL-BRK is pressed during startup,
> FS is sometimes flagged as invalid then as well.

If you abort the program before DJGPP sets up the segment registers,
this is normal.