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From: antony AT werple DOT mira DOT net DOT au (Antony Suter)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: [Q] Are there are stub version of CWSDPMI?
Date: 30 Jul 1995 19:27:49 +1000
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In article <300f9c5a DOT sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>,
Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> wrote:
>> Yup...are there any? Cause I find distributing 2 EXE file rather unpleasant.
>> If not...oh well, I'll just have to live with them :-)
>
>There is no such thing.  Many reasons.  First, the stub and CWSDPMI are 
>currently written in different languages.  Second, there is no reason to 
>load a DPMI at all in many cases.  Third - CWSDPMI is still evolving,
>and should be able to be replaced/upgraded separately from the image.

I think it would be really great if a 'auto loader' program was written
that loaded cwsdpmi if there was no other dpmi host present, then ran your
djgpp binary.

This would make things really convenient as well as making things simpler
for distributed commercial software.
 
--
- Antony Suter  <antony AT werple DOT mira DOT net DOT au>  (Rohaan)
- "...in Space, all warriors are Code warriors", Chang, ST6.