Date:	Sun, 29 Aug 1999 14:08:26 +0300 (IDT)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To:	Johan Venter <jventer AT writeme DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Error General Fault Protection on quit???
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On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Johan Venter wrote:

> The Windows DPMI server has a
> habit of letting pointer dereferences pass.

Not all of them, only NULL pointers.  Garbled pointers which point to 
preposterously large addresses *are* caught by Windows (because they 
exceed the DS limit), unless you turn on near pointers.

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