fredb@cheops.OZ (Richard Bassett) (04/12/88)
We just purchased Microsoft Multiplan (TM etc etc) v2.01 (an 80286 binary), to run on our 386 under Xenix-386. Installed it using the 25k binary "msinstall" program on the tar-distribution disc (binary install programs!! Haven't they heard of "custom"??), typed mp and presto: <PID>: floating exception, core dumped. Real impressive. Well, I rebooted the system onto the Xenix-386 v2.2.1 kernel, ************* BUG REPORT FOR YOU, SCO **************** because core dumps generated by the vpix-modified 2.46 kernel which we normally run are not readable by adb (real impressive) ******************************************************* repeated the exercise, and jumped into the core-file with adb. Crash was at: 0x57:0x9fd2 fninit I replaced this instruction by 2 nop's: echo '0x57:0x9fd2?w 0x9090 $q' | adb -w /usr/lib/MSTOOLS/mp.exec and tried again. Hey presto, it seems to work. If I was doing sums on my million-dollar bank account, I mightn't trust it, but I'm prepared for that worry after I get the $1M. The program is a dog, though. It is s-l-o-w to refresh the screen. It gobbles 587k of data-space upon invokation, on top of its 243k of code. But if you want compatibility with DOS spreadsheet files, .... And it was cheap (on special, $Aus150) Hope this info may be useful -- R J Bassett, Dept of Textile Tech, Uni of NSW, PO Box 1, Kensington, NSW 2033, AUSTRALIA : Ph. +61 2 697 4454 -- ACSnet: fredb@cheops.oz ARPA: fredb@cheops.oz.au UUCP: {uunet,mcvax}!cheops.oz!fredb