From:	"Matthias Paul" <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Organization:	Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:42:18 +0100
Subject:	Re: cloaking
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On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 Alex Venn wrote:

> > Does somebody know about it?
> 
> What's to know ?  It's a "cloaked" DPMS server.
No, it provides a "cloaked DPMS server" (if no DPMS server running
already and not using the undocumented /NODPMS option). Comparing
DPMS and Cloaking, I think, they both have alot of similarities,
and while CLOAKING has the advantages of being hi-loadable 
and being supported by the LOGITECH mouse driver, it does not work 
with the DR-DOS multitasker (task-switching is OK, though), does not 
work well on a 286, and does not work on machines with more than
64 Mb of memory. (This applies at least to the issue I have - from
the Logitech mouse driver package - if I recall correctly it was
2.01???)
Comparing DPMS and Cloaking at API level, Cloaking is kind of a 
superset of DPMS (for example in Ralf Brown's INTER61, which BTW 
is out since a week or so), however, I don't see any real 
technical advantage of Cloaking compared to DPMS. So, new TSRs 
should use DPMS not Cloaking IMHO.

Matthias


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