Date: Wed, 9 Jul 1997 10:51:59 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: caldera-opendos AT caldera DOT com
cc: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: OpenDos acting up...
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On Wed, 9 Jul 1997, Peter Vertes wrote:

> 	I just got DJGPP and emacs and I'm trying to get them to run under
> OpenDOS, but OpenDOS just doesn't want to cooperate.  It keeps on
> crashing.  It sais that EMM386 has found an illegal opcode, shows me the
> contents of all my registers and wants me to reboot.

It seems that EMM386 from OpenDOS has problems, at least as far as 32-bit 
protected mode is concerned.  I've heard such reports from users that 
told me their problems went away once they booted native MS-DOS.  In one 
of the recent reports, a user tried to compile GCC, but Make was crashing 
half-way through the build process because apparently EMM386 was leaking 
memory (the free RAM consistently went down); after the crash, only a 
reboot would make the system stable again.