Message-Id: <199710120229.MAA03611@rabble.uow.edu.au>
Subject: Re: w95 likes Rhide too much!
To: richardbirch AT dial DOT pipex DOT com (Rich Birch)
Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 12:29:37 +1000 (EST)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com (DJGPP)
In-Reply-To: <01bcd683$fcbc7400$03f482c1@damien> from Rich Birch at "Oct 11, 97 08:27:33 pm"
From: Brett Porter <bporter AT rabble DOT uow DOT edu DOT au>
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> Whenever I exit rhide (v1.3 & 1.4) win95 complains that there's been
> illegal operation performed. Now, is there an emotional link between these
> two programs (win95 & rhide) or is it just yet another MS bug?
> 
> 
I don't have this problem, so perhaps it is your program doing something
illegal under Windows, and Windows thinks that RHIDE did it.
Tryy running your program under plain DOS (press F5 at Windows startup and
select to run from the command prompt). Toggle the "yes" for confirming
drivers at the bottom of the screen, then answer "no" to any memory managers
like EMM386 or QEMM, that way you will be using CWSDPMI as your DPMI server.
After doing this, see if you get any SIGSEGV (segmentation faults) from your
program. IF you do, this is probably the cause of Windows spitting the
dummy, and happy hunting with that memory leak/bad pointer you have :)
If not it may be that one of your many thousands of Windows drivers
is conflicting with RHIDE and for that I have no solution. I don't care what
anyone says, Microsoft initially intended for Win95 not to have any DOS
support, and even though therewas a savage backlash, it reflects now that
they don't like providing backward-compatibility very much. Bad news is I've
heard the Win98 beta is even worse :(

Good luck!
Brett

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