Re: SDK & OpenDOS

Edward Di Geronimo Jr. (edwdig@bergen.org)
Mon, 17 Feb 1997 12:25:27 -0500

>>> > 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.)

Not the problem. I'm using QEMM's DPMI. That worked fine under MSDOS.

>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.

It works fine for me, except for serial communications, which means no swat.
If it wasn't for that I'd use it all the time.

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