From:	"Florian X" <dos DOT fire AT aon DOT at>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject:	Re: Announce: PMODE/DJ 1.3 beta
Date:	Wed, 15 Nov 2000 22:42:23 +0100
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I had no problem!!

Bye, florian
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Charles Sandmann schrieb in Nachricht <10011151909 DOT AA18553 AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>...
>The beta period for PMODE/DJ 1.3 is coming to an end - and I have not
gotten
>a single comment on the new release (there have been around 100 ftp
>connections).  If you have any testing to do before the new release, please
>do it ASAP.
>
>Forwarded message:
>> Subject: Announce: PMODE/DJ 1.3 beta
>> Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2000 22:52:45 -0500 (CDT)
>>
>> I'd like to announce the beta of an updated version of PMODE - which is
>> an alternate DPMI provider for DJGPP.  It comes in two forms - a stub
>> which can be appended to a DJGPP COFF image for a single image
distribution,
>> and in a "one pass" TSR which can be used in place of CWSDPMI.EXE.  PMODE
>> is smaller and faster than CWSDPMI, but does not provide virtual memory
>> or ring 3 protection to programs.
>>
>> The binary distribution is available from:
>>  ftp://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/pmode13b_BETA.zip
>> The source distribution is also available in the same directory:
>>  ftp://clio.rice.edu/djgpp/pmode13s_BETA.zip
>>
>> Since PMODE is a specialty DPMI provider with fewer users, I plan for the
>> beta to last around 4 weeks - until November 17.  At that point I will
>> update the code based on comments and release 1.3.
>>
>> There are several bug fixes in this release, and it has been enhanced to
>> support more than 64Mb of memory in both RAW and XMS environments.  In
>> particular, if you have a very large memory footprint machine (>512Mb)
>> and a single image to run, PMODE is the most efficient way to provide
>> DPMI services for that image.
>>
>> Changes from 1.2 to 1.3:
>> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
>>
>> - fixed bug which zeroed memory when running under another DPMI provider.
>>   This caused PMODE/DJ programs running under CWSDPMI to trash it's code.
>> - upgraded the stub loader code to 2.02 functionality and made it
consistent
>>   (as much as possible) with the stub loader code used by CWSDSTUB.
>> - fixed several bugs in the stub with missing segment overrides, causing
>>   variables to be stored in the wrong places.
>> - added support for more than 64Mb of raw memory using extended BIOS
functions.
>>   If more than 64Mb is available the int 15 hook won't return the proper
values.
>> - added support for more than 64Mb of XMS memory using extended XMS
functions.

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