Abacus DOS problem Lock Selector

Sylvain Petreolle spetreolle at yahoo.fr
Thu Sep 19 21:19:31 CDT 2002


for better try cvs...
 --- Bruce McGovern <brucemcgovern at earthlink.net> a écrit : > A lawyer
in California is trying to change to linux. In CA, there are
> a 
> number of programs required by the courts, and so far none are ported
> to 
> linux at any price.  His reason for wishing to change has to do with
> the 
> fact that Microsoft now controls his access to his own files, and he
> finds 
> this unacceptable.
> 
> I tried one of his apps, an old DOS version of Abacus.  Using the
> WINe with 
> Redhat 7.3, I get an error:
> 
> Warning: unprotecting the first 64KB of memory to allow real-mode
> calls.
>           NULL pointer accesses will no longer be caught.
> fixme:int31:INT_Int31Handler lock selector not supported
> err:int31:INT_Int31Handler int31: unknown/not implemented parameters:
> int31: AX 0a00, BX 0005, CX 0000, DX 0000, SI 2bb2, DI 2bb2, DS 0267,
> ES 0267
> wine: Unhandled exception, starting debugger...
> err:seh:EXC_DefaultHandling Unhandled exception code 80000102 flags 0
> addr 0x43
> 
> After some Google research, I found DOS PROTECTED MODE INTERFACE
> listing, 
> which says:
> 
> DPMI 0.9 + Lock selector Int 31/AX=0004h.
> 
> I tried all the versions for wine with no different result.
> 
> I am betting it is also missing Unlock selector 0005h.
> 
> I downloaded all monthly summaries of this mail list from Feb. thru
> part of 
> August, and did word searches with Open Office. No luck.
> 
> I have looked at dosemu, but simply do not relate to what they are
> saying 
> about building a .dexe file,
> sigh.
> 
> Any ideas at all?
> 
> 
> Bruce McGovern writing from Mexico City 

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