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From: AndrewC <andspamtrap AT exemail DOT doty DOT com DOT au>
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Subject: Re: Can DJGPP work with Windows XP dos box?
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:35:58 +1100
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>I have found that the current release from
>   ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/current/v2gnu/txt20b.zip
>is BUGGED
>
>a simple command like
>   sort --help
>provoke a sigsegv bug on a Windows XP SP2 DOS box, AMD Sempron 3000
>(but not on another computer, and I have faith on my RAM)
>
>whereas
>ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2gnu/txt20b.zip
>works.
This is expected and has been known for a long time. If the binary
files built are built with the original 2.03 DJGPP LIBC release then
expect to have some wierd things go wrong. And by weird you can have
stuff like can't find/load a file up to and incuding instant XP
re-boots.

If you are using XP then I would advise using the beta release as it
has all of the known fixes that were found when the files were built.
If you use Rhide on XP then I would advise to search the DJGPP
newgroup archives at www.delorie.com otherwise you may have no hair
left after a week if it plays up on you.

Good luck.

Andrew