To: "Sean Wall, x3736" <WALL AT bng DOT ge DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: Error handling question 
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 94 07:09:55 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

>         I've got what I think is a simple question.  While debugging a
> program, I've noticed that segmentation faults are trapped well when
> 'nodpmi' is in the GO32 environment variable, but causes the machine
> to lock up when GO32 is running with 'nodpmi' absent.

My experience is the opposite.  Running DJGPP programs in DPMI mode
either under Windows 3.1 DOS box or under QEMM's QDPMI often caused
buggy programs to GP fault, whereas if I use `nodpmi', they run to
completion (either producing bogus results or just doing their job
as if nothing happened).