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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: CWSDPMI Question
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 1996 08:41:51 CST
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> I recently tried using CWSDPMI while using DJGPP V2 under DOS.  From 
> reading the docs, my impression was that you have to run CWSDPMI every time
> you run any of the DJGPP apps.  

V2 applications go looking for CWSDPMI if they don't find a DPMI provider,
much like V1 applications would go looking for GO32.  Since it searches 
the executable directory, the path, and the current directory, it's 
usually going to find CWSDPMI.

> CWSDPMI is not resident (I've checked).  These programs use to give me 
> the Load Error: no DPMI error, but now they all work, but CWSDPMI isn't 
> running?  I don't have any other type of DPMI server running.  Anyone know 
> what is going on?

I'll guess that you got the Load Error before you unzipped the package
with CWSDPMI - after that it was in your path (in the bin directory with
the rest of the DJGPP images).

Usually you only have to worry about CWSDPMI if you are distributing the
image or it's typically not in your path.