From: invalid AT erehwon DOT invalid (Graaagh the Mighty) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Info. Organization: Low Charisma Anonymous Message-ID: <3b31a206.174446194@news.primus.ca> References: X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Lines: 44 Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 07:32:55 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.176.153.34 X-Complaints-To: news AT primus DOT ca X-Trace: news2.tor.primus.ca 993108733 207.176.153.34 (Thu, 21 Jun 2001 03:32:13 EDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 03:32:13 EDT To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com On Tue, 19 Jun 2001 12:15:55 +0300 (IDT), Eli Zaretskii sat on a tribble, which squeaked: >Please post the entire crash message here. Please also tell what command >line did you use to invoke Info. I don't have it here and I'm not about to reboot *twice* to get it. Suffice it to say it was a sigsegv. The command line: "info", plain and simple. "info libc a fopen" segfaulted, so I tried plain "info", which died identically. >FWIW, this is the first segfault report about Info 4.0, IIRC. This is >probably something specific to your system, or some very subtle bug that >is triggered for something on your system. There's nothing unusual about my system. Especially under pure DOS, there's not much variation to be had in the configuration. Swap size under cwsdpmi is about it. Of course info has some kind of search path for its files, too, but it should complain gracefully instead of crash if this is fouled up. Besides, it's the same under Windows, where info works. Most likely, it's a heisenbug, depending on uninitialized memory. Certainly it will behave differently then under DOS and Windows, and may depend under DOS upon what kinds of device drivers and stuff are used. >Some DOS systems might have problems with the way Info switches the >display to 40-line mode. Try setting INFO_LINES=50 in the environment, >before running Info, and see if that helps. Why would that be? The VGA screen modes available with one graphics card are the same as those available with any other. Info doesn't try to use a non-VGA mode does it? If it does, doesn't it test for success and handle failure gracefully? >Btw, do you still have an outdated DJGPP installation? Maybe that is >your problem, if you do. This problem appeared with an *upgrade* to the version of info on my system. -- Bill Gates: "No computer will ever need more than 640K of RAM." -- 1980 "There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of." -- 1980 "This antitrust thing will blow over." -- 1998 Combine neo, an underscore, and one thousand sixty-one to make my hotmail addy.