On Dec 1, 2004, at 9:11 AM, Ram Meenakshisundaram wrote:
> Apparently coming from djgpp:
>
> http://www.ludd.luth.se/~ams/djgpp/cvs/djgpp/src/stub/stub.asm
Thanks for your help, that seems to be the stub that my programs were
compiled to use, it looks like it loads the DPMI- then finds the rest
of the program and runs it in protected mode?
I don't know assembly language for the x86 but this seems to only
tell me what I already know - the programs I am trying to run are
meant to run under a 32 bit OS, even though the sites I download
them from say they are for DOS, and I have run them under plain
DOS before (perhaps I ran older versions)
>
>
> Ram
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Hudson [mailto:ron.hudson_at_sbcglobal.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 11:54 AM
> To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
> Subject: Re: ot: getting a "coff"
>
>
>
> On Dec 1, 2004, at 8:34 AM, Bert Thomas wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> Ron Hudson wrote:
>>>
>>> Several of the programs I try to run on my "classic dos" machine give
>>> the error message:
>>>
>>> <filepath\filename>:not coff (check for viruses)
>>>
>>> I don't yet have a virus scanner, but these files were downloaded
>>> from trusted sources I don't think I have a virus. What is this error
>>> message?
>>
>> http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/C/coff.html
>
> Thanks, I saw that. It only defines COFF. No hints as to what I need
> to make
> DOS 6.22 run the thing.
>
> One of the instances I where I got this was I was trying "Seal" a GUI
> written by the people who also put out freeDOS
>
> http://www.freedos.org/
>
> And it says at the seal download site that it runs under other DOSses
>
>
>
>>
>> (Just googled, not from experience)
>>
>
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