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Date: Mon, 31 Oct 94 10:25:23 CST
From: mmeyer AT rts DOT dseg DOT ti DOT com (Mark Meyer)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: C++ misc suggestions / queries

>>>>> "BB" == Bob Babcock <peprbv AT cfa0 DOT harvard DOT edu> writes:
 BB> If the PC is in virtual 86 mode, it must have been put into that
 BB> mode by some software running at a higher privelege level.  The
 BB> hardware won't let GO32 get out of V86 mode, and almost certainly
 BB> something would break if you did find a way out.

	I was having this problem with demacs 1.2.0 on my 486 running
DOS 6.2.  I narrowed the problem down to this entry in my CONFIG.SYS:

	DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS X=C800-C9FF

Commented this out and demacs came up fine!  Now... what have I lost
by doing this?

-- 
Mark Meyer                                               | mmeyer AT dseg DOT ti DOT com |
Texas Instruments, Inc.,  Plano, TX                      +--------------------+
Every day, Jerry Junkins is grateful that I don't speak for TI.
   Make you so blitzed you hallucinate strange TV shows: Can your beer do this?

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