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Date: Tue, 4 Mar 1997 13:11:52 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: wolfer AT ihgp123e DOT ih DOT lucent DOT com
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DPMI dumb question #46-B
In-Reply-To: <5ff415$451@ssbunews.ih.lucent.com>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970304131126.12015A-100000@is>
MIME-Version: 1.0

On 3 Mar 1997 wolfer AT ihgp123e DOT ih DOT lucent DOT com wrote:

> In the docs for this game, it says DPMI is required. I tried
> running the game under DOS and it ran fine without the CWSDPMI.EXE
> program installed as a TSR.

You don't need to install CWSDPMI as a TSR, because the DJGPP stub (a
small 2KB-long real-mode DOS program prepended to the rest of the
protected-mode image) loads CWSDPMI automatically if it doesn't see
that DPMI services are available.  That's why your program still
works.  If you rename CWSDPMI.EXE to something else, chances are it
will stop working, unless you have some other DPMI host installed
unbeknownst to you.

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