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

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