From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_DATE autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2c252922f8f9e732,start X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1994-12-16 20:29:19 PST Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Path: bga.com!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!zip.eecs.umich.edu!caen!night.primate.wisc.edu!relay!news From: FrankPetranka Subject: GNAT DOS Problem Solved Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Message-ID: Sender: news@relay.nswc.navy.mil Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center - Dahlgren Div. Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Sat, 17 Dec 1994 00:31:27 GMT Date: 1994-12-17T00:31:27+00:00 List-Id: My PC was hanging up whenever I tried to execute gcc or gnatbl using the GNAT 2.0 DOS release. The solution (provided by the GNAT folks) was to use the EMM386 expanded memory manager provided by windows. I added the following line to my config.sys file after the device=c:\dos\HIMEM.sys line: device=c:\windows\emm386.sys 3072 (Note: 3072 is the amount of expanded memory in Kbytes. This number may need to be smaller for a 4MB PC) I also added the following line to my autoexec.bat file as suggested by the djgpp readme file: call c:\djgpp\bin\setdjgpp c:/djgpp c:\djgpp This probably wasn't necessary since the setdjgpp.bat file wasn't included in the GNAT release. With these additions GNAT runs as advertised on my PC. P.S. Using SMARTDRV.SYS will greatly improve compile times. Disclaimer: The views or opinions expressed in this article are of the user and do not, in any manner, reflect that of the Navy. Frank J. Petranka Naval Surface Warfare Center (703)663-4849 Dahlgren, Va. 22448 fpetran@relay.nswc.navy.mil