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Flwriter 1.2 works great (Developers)

posted by Rugxulo Homepage, Usono, 15.05.2013, 21:31

> I did not think that you wanted to insult but if you write - simply put -
> FlWriter was a nice try but it crashes all the time I have to object.
I couldn't even read readme.htm or open dosopen.htm (without loading from cmdline)! :-)

> Since the source code is stripped from FlWriter I am afraid GDB will not
> give you much information.
I should just rebuild it, but I hate polluting my DJGPP tree with tons of libs and headers. Though it needs minor updates (again) anyways, and I do have .ZIP backups to reinstall if needed. It just feels annoyingly messy, but that's life I guess.

Anyways, for now it's not necessary (see below), but yeah, any further "condemnations" by me should probably have patches ready for submission. :-)

> Maybe you start FreeDOS just with HIMEM, without
> EMM386 or alternative, and then start FlWriter to let it load cwsdpmi.
I don't use EMM386 by default, so it's not that.

I fiddled with CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT and rebooted a lot but to no superior effect. No surprise, my setup is fairly clean (though handrolled, not based upon stock FD 1.1).

I think I found the problem (through random elimination): %LANG%

Solution: "set LANG=" before running. I guess this is an artifact of Linux, since they are much more i18n friendly than we are (mostly).

I don't even need %LANG% set. IIRC, I only set it for some trivial reason: testing RUNTIME or maybe to shut up FD TEE, can't remember.

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