On Sun, 8 Jun 2003, Daniel Greenberg wrote: > Here is an interesting problem that shows itself in 1.1.5 > and not in 1.1.4 or earlier versions of dosemu.
can you check 1.1.4.15 (www.dosemu.org/testing) to see if it is new or really new? > Certain programs (e.g., MSD.EXE, Word for Dos version 5.0) > fail with a divide by zero error message at startup. (The error message > comes from within the dos session - dosemu itself doesn't crash.) > These programs started fine under previous versions of dosemu. > What is strange is that I can avoid these divide by zero errors if I start > and then exit certain other programs (e.g. paradox, edit, /dos/help, > dosshell) before trying to start Word or MSD. > > Though I'm not certain, I suspect that when these other programs exit > they are restoring the video mode in some beneficial manner. > are you running DOSEMU on the console or in X (xdosemu)? if you run it on the console, does $_vbios_post make any difference? Bart - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html