Date: Mon, 19 Jun 2000 20:13:19 +0530
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From: Prashant TR <tr AT midpec DOT com>
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	Robinson on Mon, 19 Jun 2000 12:23:43 +0100)
Subject: Re: CWSDPMI r5
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> > Unless you have more than 255Mb of virtual memory defined, or 128Mb or 
> > more of physical memory it won't do much of anything for you, unless
> > you have need for one of the obscure enhancements.  And as noted elsewhere,
> > it misbehaves on some systems and noone knows why.  96Mb shouldn't cause
> > any problems at all (other than maybe only using 64Mb of it if himem.sys
> > isn't loaded).
> Himem.sys isn't loaded; I'm running under Safe Mode Win95 DOS.

Are you talking of "Safe Mode Command Prompt"? And more importantly,
what is your system config (especially what BIOS your system has)? I
can actually send you a small test program which could tell us whether
it's due to the "large memory" support added or something else.

> > I suspect this is more likely due to the application you are running 
> > using uninitialized memory, or some device driver doing bad things it
> > shouldn't do.
> Well, the application concerned is make.exe, or gcc, or nasm, or ld, or
> all four.

And also how often does it reboot? Everytime, sometimes, rarely?

Prashant