From: greve AT rs1 DOT thch DOT uni-bonn DOT de (Thomas Greve)
Subject: Re: GCC with DOS
To: apollo AT ee DOT ualberta DOT ca (Apollo Wong at University of Alberta)
Date: Wed, 20 May 92 13:49:14 NFT
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Status: O

> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just got GCC for DOS. After unpacking the package with pkunzip -d,
> setting up all the necessary environments, I couldn't get gcc to run.
> I got the message that saying CPU must be in real mode (not V86) mode
> to run. All other binaries reported similar message. My computer is a
> IBM clone running DOS 5 and Norton NDOS. It uses INTEL 386-33 and has
> 5MB RAMs.
If you use that brain-damaged emm386.sys, you must be sure not to use
the `noems' option.
This message about V86 is some sort of misleading, as go32 is very well
able to run from V86 mode, as long as the V86-manager supports VCPI.
emm386 does this, when ems is enabled. QEMM dynamically converts XMS to
EMS, so you won't run into trouble with it (there is a noems switch 
for QEMM, too, but there's probably no reason to use it...).

				- Thomas

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