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Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1998 15:58:39 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: djgpp-announce AT delorie DOT com
Subject: ANNOUNCE: Patched binary of GNU Less v332 uploaded
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Several people have complained that Less wedges the DOS box on their 
machines when e.g. run from RHIDE or another DJGPP program.

This was traced to a bug in one of the Windows 95 modules that is present 
on some rare system configurations.  On these systems, calling the 
library function __dpmi_yield (which releases the rest of its time slice 
to the Windows scheduler) causes the DOS box to hang.

DJGPP v2.02 will have a modified version of __dpmi_yield that works 
around that bug.  I have now rebuilt Less with the modified version of 
__dpmi_yield and uploaded the new lss332b.zip archive to SimTel.NET, in 
the v2gnu directory.  (The source distribution lss332s.zip was not 
changed, since there are no source-level changes in Less.)

If you work on Windows 9X and use Less, I suggest to download this 
updated distribution, even though the risk of bumping into this 
particular bug is extremely low.