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From:	Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
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Subject:	Re: DJGPP TSR
Date:	Wed, 23 Jan 2002 21:13:13 CST
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> > http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/dpmi/api/310c01.html
> > "If the objective is only to provide resident services to real mode
> > programs, the client should use the DPMI translation service Int 31H
> > Function 0300H to invoke DOS's Int 21H Function 31H directly."

> But will even that really operate sensibly on a DPMI 0.9 implementation?
> Don't most MS implementations provide for 0.9 only?

I experimented with various DPMI 0.9 providers and some behaved fine doing
this, others didn't.  All I can suggest is try it for your environment if
you really need a TSR with lots of memory (needs to be a lot to offset
overhead of DPMI provider).

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