From: Hans Ecke <ecke AT coffee DOT geophysik DOT tu-freiberg DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Running programs from inside bash
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 17:26:01 +0100
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Hi!

1.) What I want
I want to run the DJGPP-tools on my computer. Especially bash and 
GNU-tools.

2.) My configuration on the beginning
    OpenDOS 7.02 - should be the same as NovellDOS 7
    Stacker 4 (e:/stacvol.dsk maps to c:)
    DJGPP 2.01 bash 1.14.7

3.) problems I could solve myself
# OpenDOS has a DPMI bug that you can't run DJGPP-programs with ODOS's
DPMI server -> switched to 386MAX (Qualitas Inc) version 8.03 which
provides a working DPMI server
# OpenDOS DPMI as well as CWSDPMI (also QEMM) are DPMI 0.9 compliant and
can't run 32 bit and 16 bit code in one VM. I want to run i.e. Borland
Pascal's IDE (16 bit) inside bash (32 bit). Fortunately, 386MAX knows
about DPMI 1.0 which allows this.

4.) Remaining problems
Most of the programs I want to run inside of bash don't work. I really
don't know why - not a guru in this field. Follows a list of programs with
their respective reactions. The lines of the form "[exited with <n>]" come
from bash.

>mem        (from OpenDOS)
Parameter not recognized.
[exited with 4]
>bp         (Borland Pascal IDE)
Borland Pascal  Version 7.0  Copyright (c) 1983,92 Borland International
Internal error 254 at 0001:4873. 
[exited with 1]
...same happens with turbo, the Turbo Pascal IDE
>nc         (Norton Commander)
Unable to read message file
>ls,grep,gcc,... 
...all fine
>nwcache /s (OpenDOS disk cacher - show statistics)
...fine
>edit       (OpenDOS editor)
...fine
>dir        (c:/stacker/dir.com)
Stacker SDIR-program not found.
[exited with 1]
...calls stacker`s c:/stacker/sdir.exe
>diskedit   (Norton Utilities diskeditor)
...fine
>ncd        (Norton Utilities fast directory changer)
...needs long to load, much harddiskaccess in this time
...in full-screen-mode : works fine, but coldboots computer after exit
...in command-line-mode: says, that it works, but nothing happens. No
boots.

All programs are called from c:/ and all directories are in the path.

I would be _really_ gratefull for help. I love Unix, but DOS too and
running DOS-programs as well as GNU-tools in an Unix-like environment
would be very near to the perfect computer environment(IMHO).

E-mail would be better than news, but either would be great.

Hans Ecke
ecke AT coffee DOT geophysik DOT tu-freiberg DOT de