From:	"DeHackEd" <notgiven AT out DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: Still unclear on DPMI
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Date:	Mon, 4 Jan 1999 15:56:16 -0500
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In your BIN directory is a program called CWSDPMI.EXE which is a non-djgpp
program but it provides DPMI support for an application. When a DJGPP program
doesn't have DPMI already availible, such as in Windows, it tries to run CWSDPMI
on it's own to provide it for it. If this fails, you get that error. Taking
djgpp/bin off your path makes it impossible to locate the program without a
complete path name (which does not get used).


Stuart Hall <fprintf AT iname DOT com> wrote in message news:3690e473 DOT 10629076 AT news...
>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
>(don't be surprised if you email me and the response
>comes back from somewhere else - iname.com is just a
>forwarding service)
>

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