X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to djgpp-bounces using -f From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: 16 bit to 32 bit Date: 15 Oct 2004 10:46:56 GMT Lines: 22 Message-ID: <2t9o50F1rnl54U2@uni-berlin.de> References: <2sv2fkF1q1u2hU2 AT uni-berlin DOT de> <9bKbd.30723$QJ3 DOT 24431 AT newssvr21 DOT news DOT prodigy DOT com> X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de oYnbSBpKB8V7/Z7UlFeRMgbGFfz2N4ixM8kKZRX9DWAk5qmaDNSrfIzzk8 X-Orig-Path: not-for-mail To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com wrote: > here is another attempt for running ls.exe in XP to generate the > problem. This problem happens some time. It's quite certainly unrelated to the one you had before. > After running ls.exe, it will pop up a crash window with "16 bit > MS-DOS subsystem" in the title, the error message is : "The NTVDM > CPU has encounted an illegal instruction. CS:00cf IP: 0b2a OP:ff ff > ff 00 00 Choose 'close' to terminate the applicaiont. And you're sure that ls.exe of yours is built with an up-to-date DJGPP? Making DJGPP-compiled programs run on W2K (and XP) turned out quite an interesting exercise, and took quite a while. So unless your ls.exe is from the latest fileutils collection available on the DJGPP download mirrors, you should update before you try any further. -- Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de) Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.