Date: Sun, 20 Feb 1994 21:35 EST
From: "Wonkoo Kim, EE, U. of Pittsburgh" <WKIM AT vms DOT cis DOT pitt DOT edu>
Subject: Re: EMX help needed
To: wgd AT martigny DOT ai DOT mit DOT EDU, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT EDU

>Date: Sun, 20 Feb 94 12:20:39 -0500
>From: "William G. Dubuque" <wgd AT martigny DOT ai DOT mit DOT EDU>
>Subject: EMX help needed
>To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT EDU
>
>I recall that a number of people have discussed EMX previously here, so
>I thought this might be a forum which might be helpful regarding EMX (if
>someone knows of a better forum please let me know).

The best forum is "emx-list AT ludd DOT luth DOT se".  Not here.

>I am using pari1377 of 9/93. I tried a version of EMX (0.8h) of 12/93 
>but this complained "incorrect EMX version" when I tried to start
>PARI. I tried another EMX version of early 1993 and this gave an
>immediate page exception (int 0E if I recall correctly) and locked
>up the machine.

Use 'emxbind' to update emxl or emx that is bound in the executable.
(e.g., emxbind -u d:\emx\bin\emxl.exe program.exe)
Get os2-ftp.cdrom.com: pub/os2/2_x/unix/emx08h/emxrt.zip and read docs,
as 1993 or earlier versions of emxl.exe had a bug.

>Is there anything special that I need to do after unzipping EMX before
>I invoke PARI? As is, I simply unzipped EMX, and ran the DOS command:
>
>	emx d:\pari\gp.exe
>
>Does EMX require PATH to point to its installation directory or any other
>environment initializations?

Yes, read docs from emxrt.zip.  It uses two ways: path and/or EMX variable.
The above gp.exe seems to be a emx-bound executable, so you don't need to 
type 'emx' explicitly.  Again, read docs.

>Any useful comments would be greatly appreciated as I'm stumped.
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>-Bill

Wonkoo Kim
wkim AT vms DOT cis DOT pitt DOT edu