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Re: E/D 1.99N & OS/2 incompatible



>>>>> "Steve" == Steve Sinnott <rrs0030@ibm.net> writes:

    Steve> Well, as far as I can tell, something in the new release is
    Steve> incompatible with OS/2. Just tried it on Machine #3, a
    Steve> 486DX/4-100, 12 megs ram, 850 meg HD (both HPFS and Fat
    Steve> partitions), Diamond Stealth 2-Meg VRAM VLB, which has
    Steve> recently had Warp installed. No network or other
    Steve> modifications.  Running Executor gives:

I've actually been at work since about 7am.  I read about the OS/2
problems and began  rearranging my office so I
can try to install OS/2 Warp on our laptop -- a TI TravelMate 4000M --
while I look into other 1.99n bugs.  Unfortunately, just like when we
tried to install it on our Dell OmniPlex 590, the OS/2 installation
disks claimed that they had no drivers for our CD-ROM.  So for now
we'll have to look at your traceback.

    Steve> eax=00000ff ebx=001100e2 ecx=00000000 edx=001c12c4
    Steve> esi=001736d8 edi=00000000 ebp=001c1464 esp=001c1074
    Steve> Call Frame Traceback EIP
    Steve> 0x0014c019
    Steve> 0x0020342
    Steve> 0x0009f863
    Steve> 0x00149eec

Ouch.  It's dying in the library routine "getmntent", which is a
relatively recent addition to the DJGPP library that we use to build
Executor.  My guess is that any program using getmntent and the DJGPP
V2 beta that we used to build 1.99n will die under Warp, but without
Warp installed it may be hard for anyone at ARDI to do more than this.

I'm bcc'ing this letter to DJ Delorie to see if he knows of any
problems with getmntent and Warp.  If we can't get a workaround soon,
I can add a command line switch that bypasses our use of getmntent (we
never used this routine in previous releases of Executor -- it's this
routine that allows us to figure out what DOS hard drives there are,
which is a feature new to 1.99n).

    Steve> It fails at the same point as the other two, right after
    Steve> checking the floppy. Again, I've tried the various switches
    Steve> available with Exec, and tried different OS/2 Dos-settings
    Steve> all without success.

Right, and for DJ's benefit, I'll mention that you appear to know OS/2
fairly well from my perspective.
	
    Steve> So I think it's not compatible, judging from the
    Steve> differences in the machines I've tried. Any ideas? Anyone
    Steve> having any luck? Anything you want me to try?

    Steve> - Steve Sinnott, Networking and Advanced Operating Systems
    Steve> Specialist SCS Consulting, Inc.  - rrs0030@ibm.net -
    Steve> yyym44a@prodigy.com Nuclear Device? What Nuclear Device
    Steve> would that be, Officer?

Steve, let me know if you might want to help us figure out how to
install Warp on our laptop.  We really want to have Windows 3.x, Warp
and Caldera's Linux installed on that puppy so we can show Executor
off to people with stacks of hundred dollar bills.

	--Cliff
	ctm@ardi.com


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