From:	Maurice Lombardi <Maurice DOT Lombardi AT ujf-grenoble DOT fr>
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Subject:	Re: Announce: PMODE/DJ 1.3 beta
Date:	Thu, 16 Nov 2000 20:58:31 +0100
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Charles Sandmann a écrit :
> 
> 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.

For me it works with a program which uses the full available physical 512M memory.
I used the pmodstub.exe method in bare DOS, with HIMEM.SYS only. djgpp 2.03.
Gives exactly the same results as cwsdpmi, somewhat faster, IIRC.

> 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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       Maurice Lombardi
Laboratoire de  Spectrometrie Physique,
Universite Joseph Fourier de Grenoble, BP87
38402 Saint Martin d'Heres Cedex     FRANCE
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