From:	Michael Feldman <mfeldman AT seas DOT gwu DOT edu>
Subject:	Re: djgpp in DOS box under WARP
To:	dj AT stealth DOT ctron DOT com (DJ Delorie)
Date:	Wed, 28 Dec 1994 14:39:00 -0500 (EST)
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> 
> > I discovered only one strange glitch: with topline enabled, go32
> > displays all its usual stuff _except_ that the memory monitor fields
> > at the righthand end of the line don;t display at all. The R/P flag on 
> > the left shows up.
> > 
> > Any idea why this should be so?
> 
> The memory indicator doesn't show up in any DPMI mode, like OS/2.

Ah, so it's the DPMI thing. Thanks.
> 
> > BTW - I never thought I'd find myself saying anything nice about IBM,
> > but amazingly enough, in the case of WARP they seem to have got it 
> > right.:-)
> 
> I've had nothing but trouble just trying to get it installed.  I
> haven't been able to convince it to even *open* a DOS window, much
> less run anything in one.

Hmmm - I've had no problems like that. The command-prompts window
should show DOS full-screen and DOS window. 

I had some memory problems with OS/2 2.1, till I learned how to set the
zillions of DOS session parameters. Presumably that was all inherited
by the new version, as everything seems nice and smooth now with no other
intervention. But as I recall, the icons for DOS window and DOS full-screen 
were there all along.

The only thing I was miffed about was the completely undocumented requirement 
that to install WARP - even over 2.1 - one needs to boot from their boot 
floppy, which comes only in 3.5" flavor, which means your 3.5" drive must 
be A:. Since in my wacky old machine my A drive was 5.25", I was stuck till 
I opened the PC case and swapped the plugs on the physical drives. I guess 
I needed the excuse to do that anyway.:-)

[Actually that helped me discover another reason to keep liking my Mac. :-)]

Can I help? Should we take this to individual mail and talk more?

Mike Feldman

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