Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 12:59:16 -0500
From: dj (DJ Delorie)
To: ENGR AT GSSI DOT MV DOT COM
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-reply-to: <DMEvED.F8r@mv.mv.com> (ENGR@GSSI.MV.COM)
Subject: Re: [Q] V2 and DPMI


> I am just taking first look on DJGPP - I need to port some embedded
> real time and data processing software to the 32-bit environment. DJGPP
> looks very attractive for that. But suddenly I found that V2.00 may
> work only under some DPMI driver. Is it really necessary?

To run programs under DOS, yes, but we provide one.  If you intend to
run the program on some other platform, it's up to you to provide
startup and runtime routines for that platform.

> Using extra driver may be some kind of problem for me.
> There is no DPMI driver in standard MS set (MSDOS + Windows) except
> Windows itself (as far as I know). I do not wand work under Windows 
> (because of raal time nature of software) - therefore I have to use 
> some 3rd party driver and install it in each system.

DJGPP comes with a free DPMI driver called CWSDPMI (csdpmi1b.zip) for
people who do not have one.  Note that Windows already has a DPMI
driver in it.