>> > Hi everyone,
>> > I installed OpenDOS last week, and the SDK acts wierd. Now pmake only
>works
>> > if Windows is running. It says: "BMAKE: Child process failed." and
>quits.
Try disabling DPMI; djgcc doesn't work under OpenDOS' DPMI either.
Fortunately it's a very easy thing to do. (Also, that sounds like your
problem -- Windoze provides its own DPMI server.)
> Does anyone know if pmake runs under OS/2? I remember hearing that it ran
>okay.
Yup, no problems here. I wish they would provide a way to use OS/2's
multitasking -- or even its networking. I've got two computers at last, and
they're networked, but there's no earthly way I'm going to be able to
serially link them.
>Nathan
>P.S. I recommend using Windows NT for your development environment. It's by
>far the most stable environment I've ever used (I've got it on five machines
>and it hasn't crashed on any one of them in three months). That's not to say
>it can't be crashed (just look at www.ntinternals.com), but the chances are
>highly unlikely.
Provide enough memory (and that's a LOT of memory) and you're solid. On my
24M work machine I used to have to reboot at least once a day just because
it doesn't run out of memory decently, but instead slows to less than a
crawl. Not a crash, just poor design. But then Geos suffers from the same
problem in a slightly different way, so why should I complain?
I wish they'd support Linux, though. It's at least as stable as NT, and
more resource friendly -- and with the new distributions, at least as easy
to install. Plus, it's almost MADE for developing stuff.
-Billy