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Date: Sat, 04 May 1996 14:17:54
From: Jethro Wright III <Jetman AT gnn DOT com>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: A GO-V1 Question....

	Folks:  This is a general question that has me stumped about 
the old GO.  (No, I can't upgrade to DJGPP V2, altho I *really* like 
to, 
just for the sake of usg CWDPMI.)   I've done all of the setup of 
DOS boxes 
under Windows 3.1 to get DJGPP *and* EMTEX to work under Windows.  
There 
are certain limitations (usu due to extended memory apparently 
getting 
fragmented after awhile, so I shut down the DOS window and re-load 
it) but 
I can still work.

	However, a small weirdie just cropped up and every time it 
does 
it leaves me clueless, bec it defies what I *thought* I knew about 
GO.  I wanted to setup all of my DOS box .PIFs to be able to run 
DJGPP 
executables, specifically GZIP386.  Ok, I setup the .PIF to alloc 2 
MB 
XMS req'd w/ a 4 MB XMS limit.  Shud be enuf, right ?  Wrong.  Now, 
GZIP386 reports the CPU is REAL or V86 mode (just as it would under 
plain DOS) and won't load at all !  I'm not sure what I've changed 
about 
my system to make GO behave this way and to complicate matters, I 
can't 
immediately reload DJGPP on the system, to thoroughly debug this 
anomaly.

	This is the EMM386 driver line from my CONFIG.SYS:

	EMM386.EXE NOEMS I=EE00-EFFF

	1)  It *was* my understanding that this setting prevents GO 
from 
getting VCPI memory at all, so one must run DJGPP V1 apps from 
inside 
a properly config'd DOS box under Windows.  Correct ?  Otherwise, GO 

will bitch about being in Real/V86 mode.

	2)  Besides getting DJGPP V2 or another memory manager, is 
there 
a way to config EMM386 so that it will reliably give GO the PM 
memory 
it wants in DOS *and* Windows ?


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