Mail Archives: opendos/2000/04/05/00:50:53
This is interesting what then was the size you chose? Or didn't that make
any difference?, wouldn't think so though.
Please let us know.
Mark
On 2000-04-05 opendos AT delorie DOT com said:
>On Tue, 4 Apr 2000 04:37:56 -0700, Marc D. Williams wrote:
>>a batch file so I would use the dpmi=off/on anyway and things
>worked fine.
>I never have any trouble /w the DR-DOS 7.03 DPMI host for programs
>that require DPMI. Only the NWCACHE causes trouble. So I made the
>max. and min. cache size the same and turn lend=off.
>> Non-djgpp programs that require DPMI and don't like DR-DOS's is
>> something else but I'm not sure if I ever came across any of
>>those. I'm sure there's gotta be a generic replacement out there
>that works.
>I know one of them: TASM 5.0, but if I prepare the use of it, I use
>a BATch-file to arrange the path and switch the DPMI off (and back
>on when I quit using TASM). No problems with this.
>BTW, I tried to use CWSDPMI, but I discovered some problems when
>launching programs from within VC (and DC and NC (all file
>managers)). Especially after using ISDN software, most programs,
>incl. DJGPP, where not able to find CWSDPMI while it was at the
>path or in the current dir. BTW, the ISDN software needs DPMS, but
>I experienced the same on a 386 w/o ISDN software.
>- Best regards,
>- Willy J. Hoogstraten.
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