Date: Mon, 31 Oct 94 10:25:23 CST From: mmeyer AT rts DOT dseg DOT ti DOT com (Mark Meyer) To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu Subject: Re: C++ misc suggestions / queries >>>>> "BB" == Bob Babcock writes: BB> If the PC is in virtual 86 mode, it must have been put into that BB> mode by some software running at a higher privelege level. The BB> hardware won't let GO32 get out of V86 mode, and almost certainly BB> something would break if you did find a way out. I was having this problem with demacs 1.2.0 on my 486 running DOS 6.2. I narrowed the problem down to this entry in my CONFIG.SYS: DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=C800-C9FF Commented this out and demacs came up fine! Now... what have I lost by doing this? -- Mark Meyer | mmeyer AT dseg DOT ti DOT com | Texas Instruments, Inc., Plano, TX +--------------------+ Every day, Jerry Junkins is grateful that I don't speak for TI. Make you so blitzed you hallucinate strange TV shows: Can your beer do this?