From: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1996 12:50:32 GMT
Subject: Re: v2 and dpmi
Message-ID: <34C1107737B@fs2.mt.umist.ac.uk>

   Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu> wrote (Re: v2 and dpmi):-

> ... The way it currently works is if it can't find DPMI, it WRITES
> CWSDPMI.EXE to the application directory, then executes it. This wouldn't
> work on CDROM, write protected Net drives, or write protected floppies, but
> I didn't see that as being a huge problem. ...

  (1) Perhaps I don't want to write extra rhubarb to the hard disk of whatever
PC I am running a GFnu C/C++ program on from a floppy or CD-ROM or net.
  (2) <<if it can't find DPMI>>: it would be hostage to any risk of there
being a defective existing DPMI already in the PC.

  I want DJGPP to embed its proper DMPI in the compiled *.exe file if desired,
same as it embeds copies of the maths library routines and fprint() etc if the
user wants it to.