From:	"John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: DPMI newbie
Date:	Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:07:07 +0000
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Pao Wee Boon wrote:
> 
> I've downloaded DJGPP last night since I am interested in 32-bit DPMI
> programming. Having DJGPP on my system now gets me excited but I don't know
> how to go about starting a PM program, let's say a PM file manager. Do I
> need to do any special inits or load any DPMI server?

All you need is a DPMI host present in your system.  DPMI is provided by
such programs as Windows 3.1/95/NT, QEMM, 386MAX, OS/2 Warp, Linux, and
more.  If you run from plain DOS, you need to get the free cwsdpmi DPMI
host that accompanies the DJGPP distribution.

The startup code in all DJGPP-compiled programs handles all aspects of
setting up PM operations for you.  All you need to do is start coding.

> BTW, I've also downloaded a TVision archive from one of the SimTel sites,
> but I've found almost no docs (except the Readme, of course!). Now how I do
> go about using those libs? Do I use them just like what I did with
> Borland's C++ TV?

All you should have to do is include the appropriate header files and
link the library into your executable.

hth

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