From:	fprintf AT iname DOT com (Stuart Hall)
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Still unclear on DPMI
Date:	Mon, 04 Jan 1999 16:00:55 GMT
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After reading the FAQ I am still unclear whether DPMI is a standard
feature of MS-DOS 6.02.  I wanted to run a very simple program that I
created in DJGPP, and I mistakenly un-enabled my set-path to DJGPP/BIN
statement.  I found that my program would not run - it kept asking for
me to download CSPDPMI*.zip.  So I went searching for an answer, and
the FAQ did give me that some sort of DPMI server is required to run
any program compiled with DJGPP - either the commercial variety or the
one provided with DJGPP.

So after checking my harddrive (assume it is a *non*windows* 486, DOS
6.02 only) for other DPMI files, I am wondering if I have accidentally
deleted DPMI if it indeed came with a standard DOS installation.
However, if the answer is that DOS does not come with DPMI, only
Windows 3.1 or Win95, then I can stop scolding my delete-key-finger.
:-)

BTW, all is well once again as far as running DJGPP programs now that
I have re-enabled my path statement, I was just wondering for
portability's sake to non-Windows, non-DJGPP computers.

Thanks,
Stuart
- ratboy
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