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From:	brennan AT mack DOT rt66 DOT com (Brennan "The Reverend Bas" Underwood)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: coprocessor
Date:	9 Sep 1996 13:08:13 -0600
Organization:	Rasterfari Production Company
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 960908085833 DOT 5416J-100000 AT is>,
Eli Zaretskii  <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:
>On Thu, 5 Sep 1996 jips AT sol DOT unizar DOT es wrote:
>> How can a djgpp program detect if there is a coprocessor in the machine?
>> How can I activate the emulation?
>Both of the above is done automatically by the DJGPP startup code.  If 
>you need to do it in an application program, you will have to explain a 
>bit more about your reasons, to get meaningful answers.

I'm not the original poster, but I'd like to be able to issue a warning
when I detect "coprocessor not present" for my current project. It'll
still work w/emulation, just much slower. I noticed Quake will flat
out refuse to run with 387=N set.


--Brennan
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