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From: malcolm AT manawatu DOT gen DOT nz (Malcolm Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: why DON'T I need CWSDPMI
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 1996 20:43:55 GMT
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baddog AT wpi DOT edu (Ffej) wrote:

>Hi, 
>	I've just started using djgpp and I love it.  However, I was 
>under the impression that all djgpp programs require a DPMI host to run, 
>and that DOS doesn't have a DPMI host, so you need to load CWSDPMI or 
>something similar.  But some programs I've compiled run straight from the 
>command line without loading anything.  What's the story?

They automatically load CWSDPMI.EXE if there is no DPMI services
found. The stub for the programs will do this (in much the same way as
the v1.x stubs loaded go32).

Malcolm
>								--Jeff