Date: Fri, 16 Jan 1998 16:37:50 -0800 (PST)
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To: "Curtis Wensley" <eto AT globalserve DOT net>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Compiled RHIDE 1.4 works in Win95, but not in DOS?!
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At 06:36  1/15/1998 -0800, Curtis Wensley wrote:
>Okay.  This is my predicament:
>I have successfully compiled RHIDE with absolutely no errors or warnings
>whatsoever.
>
>(i had to compile in DOS cuz i don't have nuff RAM, and Win95 can only give
>you virtual memory up to the amount of your RAM... ouch!)
There is some option somewhere which you have to set to 65535 manually. I
don't use Windows 95, but see FAQ section 15.6.
>
>Anyway, i tried to run the compiled EXE (2mb until i stripped all the
>useless stuff from the exe) in DOS, and it would give (repeadedly) an error.
>I cannot give you the error information, because my computer is literally
>frozen while it continuously writes out the same error information.
Literally frozen? Really. Have you chipped the ice off yet? :)
Seriously though, can you give any idea of what the message was like?
Obviously other people have had RHIDE work so they can't reproduce your problem.
>
>When i ran it in Windows 95, however, It ran just fine and dandy!
Bizarre. Are there any more details you can give?
>
>I know what yer thinking, maybe it is just that it won't run under DOS.. but
>the RHIDE.EXE that comes with the Rhide14b.zip archive works great in dos as
>well.
No, RHIDE is supposed to work in both DOS and Windows.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net