Date: Sun, 10 Aug 1997 18:13:27 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: g77 and opendos
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On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Jude DaShiell wrote:

> Evidently the two are incompatible.
> My machine has 8 megs of ram and
> while using opendos 7.01 and g77 current version for dos
> with or without dpms.exe and with or without cwsdpmi.exe
> I get:
> f771.exe virtual memory exhausted.

I have seen a few user reports which seem to indicate that OpenDOS has
severe bug in its EMM386 memory manager.  This bug causes memory
leaks, so that with each new DJGPP program invocation, you have less
and less available DPMI memory.  Eventually your DJGPP programs have
no DPMI memory to run, and you have to reboot.  This happens even if
you turn OFF the DPMI services built into OpenDOS, and use CWSDPMI.

Try to not load EMM386.  If that doesn't help, the only other solution
is to boot into MS-DOS.