To: gunter AT statsun DOT stat DOT colostate DOT edu (Gunter Hartel)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: GDB under windws 3.1 
Date: Sun, 25 Dec 94 09:47:59 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

>  I've finally gotten to the point in programming where I feel I need to
>  use a debugger.  But when   I try to run gdb or gdb-dpmi I get the
>  following errors:
> 
> 
>  C:\DISSERTA\C_CODE>go32 c:\djgpp\bin\gdb-dpmi -help
>  go32 version 1.12.maint2 Copyright (C) 1994 DJ Delorie
>  Unsupported DOS request at eip=3581b

That's because you should have said:

   C:\DISSERTA\C_CODE>go32 -d c:\djgpp\bin\gdb-dpmi
                           ^^
That little -d thingy will tell go32 the next program name is a
name of a *debugger*, and everybody will be happy ever after.