Re: SDK & OpenDOS

Gerd Boerrigter (boerrigt@hermes.fho-emden.de)
Tue, 18 Feb 1997 11:14:08 +0000 (WET)

On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Edward Di Geronimo Jr. wrote:

> >>> > 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.

THAT is the problem. QEMM has problems with some of Novell DOS 7 (now
OpenDOS) improvements. Quaterdeck includes a lot of technical info papers
in one of its subdirectorys. One of the documents should be related to
Novell DOS. This document should help you to fix the problem.

Regards

Gerd