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Subject:	Re: CWSDPMI r5 test update status?
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Hi,

On Dec 15, 11:02 pm, "H. Peter Anvin" <h DOT  DOT  DOT  AT zytor DOT com> wrote:
>
> Just wondering if the CWSDPMI r5 test update will be promoted to release
> anytime soon.
>
>         -hpa

The original announcement / comments on news://comp.os.msdos.djgpp is
here (Aug. 21, 2008):

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.msdos.djgpp/browse_thread/thread/342a99650ada1447#

I haven't heard anything from Charles lately, but since his time is
1000x more precious than mine (and most), that's normal.    ;-)     Of
course, I haven't e-mailed him any recent results either (due to lack
of more testing on my part until recently). He still checks the
newsgroup occasionally (weekly or so), so he'll probably respond.

Just for the record, it works for me (enables SSE if found) in pure
FreeDOS booted from USB floppy on my laptop. But as mentioned, besides
SSE support it's not very different than the (2002) r5updtst.zip,
which BTW is here:  ftp://ftp.delorie.com/pub/djgpp/beta/v2/r5updtst.zip
(hint hint:  DJ, please update that and maybe the /current/ version
also to use the latest 2008 refresh).

P.S. CWSDPMI is built with Borland C (3.1?) and TASM although the "no
cost" TC++ 1.01 also works (http://dn.codegear.com/article/21751). In
fact, TASM32 (5.3 from 2000)  is "no cost" (Turbo C++ Explorer 2006),
and it's been suggested that somebody convert the srcs in CWSDPMI to
use OpenWatcom + JWasm, NASM, or whatever "free" tools. If I wasn't so
limited in skills, I'd do it myself. I could probably convert the TASM
part, it's the C part that bothers me.    :-/

Kudos to Charles Sandmann (et al.) for all that hard work over the
years!

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