Why does gzip crash NTVDM?

[Guest]

I am running DJ Delorie's (DJGPP) bash 2.04 shell (NTVDM). Invoking gzip (GNU
zip) raises an unhandled exception and crashes bash. The system is WinXP HOME
upgraded from Win98 SE, and under Win98 this problem didn't occur. What is
going on?

 

[Chas]

I am running DJ Delorie's (DJGPP) bash 2.04 shell (NTVDM). Invoking gzip
(GNU
zip) raises an unhandled exception and crashes bash. The system is WinXP
HOME
upgraded from Win98 SE, and under Win98 this problem didn't occur. What is
going on?

Hi
My Guess is incompatibility
Look here
http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~phekda/richdawe/djgpp/2.04/status204.html#outstanding-issues
scroll down to outstanding issues
Chas

 

[Malke]

I am running DJ Delorie's (DJGPP) bash 2.04 shell (NTVDM). Invoking
gzip (GNU zip) raises an unhandled exception and crashes bash. The
system is WinXP HOME upgraded from Win98 SE, and under Win98 this
problem didn't occur. What is going on?

Since you aren't using a Microsoft shell, you should ask DJ Delorie.
What works on one operating system doesn't necessarily work on a
completely different one.

Malke