Date: Sun, 12 Oct 1997 14:10:35 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Stuart MacGregor <stuart AT smgcia DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: NT4.0
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On Fri, 10 Oct 1997, Stuart MacGregor wrote:

> and when I launch tkinfo, the bash box hangs up and does not
> recover when the tkinfo exits.

I suggest you contact the author of the Bash port and work with him to
solve these problems.  NT doesn't like some DPMI calls that DJGPP
uses, and it might be that these crashes are due to some of them.

One problem known to me is with the `__dpmi_free_dos_memory' function:
NT will crash a DJGPP program if it tries to call this function (a
work- around is to use the DOS function directly via `__dpmi_int').

Another known problem is that the default memory-allocation method
used by DJGPP's `sbrk' sometimes might need the FAT DS hack, and NT
doesn't allow this.  Compiling Bash with the Unixy sbrk crt0 flag
should correct that.