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From: Brian Inglis <Brian DOT Inglis AT SystematicSW DOT Invalid>
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Subject: Re: 16 bit to 32 bit
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On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:07:16 GMT in comp.os.msdos.djgpp,
"one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com" <one2001boy AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:

>Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
>> one2001boy AT yahoo 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.
>
>but will pop up something like  "16 bit MS-DOS subsystem", not sure why 
>16 not 32. could it be the reason? I just have no idea how to change 16 
>to 32.
>
>
>> 
>>>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.
>> 
>
>I use ls.exe built on Nov, 2003, I believe it is the latest build.
>
>The error message contains "NTVDM CPU".
> From Brian Inglis's post in antoher email, it seems that I should use 
>NTlfn not NTVDM. I expect all Windows XP should have similar settings by 
>default. This problem only appears sometime. same ls.exe in other XP 
>machines work fine.

According to Eli Z, MS put lfn into XP NTVDM, so NTlfn is not needed. 

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