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From:	Cees Wesseling <Wesseling AT frw DOT ruu DOT nl>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	spawning 16 bit DPMI apps from a DJGPP/CWSDMPI app
Date:	Fri, 19 Jul 1996 18:03:47 +0100
Organization:	Utrecht University
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Hi,

I have written an DJGPP app that needs to call an 16 bit DPMI app.
I don't need to do anything after the 16 bit app terminates.
So I thought I could use execlp from the DJGPP app that will
overlay the 16 bit app and it's own 16 bit DPMI extender (rtm.exe
from Borland Pascal 7.0):
  execlp("app16", "app16", NULL);

It seems that CWSDPMI.EXE is still in control since it says:
 Sorry, no 16 bits etc ..

Is there any construction possible that tells CWSDPMI.EXE to get 
out of the way, from within an DJGPP app?

The philosophical question is maybe what is an executable image.
execlp replaces teh executable image. Which is from the point
of view of a DOS extender something different then from an DOS app:
image = application code + extender. Hmm, I don't bother:
Any dirty solutions accepted.

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 Cees Wesseling              | PO BOX 80.115   | 
 Dept. of Physical Geography | 3508 TC Utrecht | phone: (+31) 30 2532768   
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