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Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2001 10:05:48 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2001, Derek wrote:

> > Do you have a file emu387.dxe in your `bin' subdirectory?
> 
> The bin directory of DJGPP? Yes, but ah, this may be my problem. I am
> compiling on a more modern PC to run on my 386 laptop. All the above
> diagnostics were for the laptop. I should probably set 387=n on my compiling
> pc. This would fix it, right?

You should indeed set 387=n on the laptop, but you should also copy
emu387.dxe to the laptop and put it into the same directory where you
keep the program which needs floating-point computations.  The
emulator code is loaded at run time, so it must be available on the
target machine.