From: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
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Date: Wed, 15 May 96 23:07:00 UTC 0000
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Subject: Re: djgpp 2 DPMI

Reply to message 6690009    from SLEE AT FS1 DOT MAR. on 05/15/96  7:37AM


>Is that true?  You can't run cwsdpmi under a Win95 Dos window?  Why
>would I need to keep cwsdpmi?  If I write a robust code, any host would
>do, right?

Under any system that already has DPMI services available, DJGPP
progs use those services instead of cwsdpmi.  However, if the system
does NOT have DPMI (i.e., plain DOS box running himem or
himem+emm386), cwsdpmi must be present or the DJGPP prog will
not run.  If you can somehow guarantee that your users will NEVER run
your program under vanilla DOS, then you're safe in not including
cwsdpmi, but until Bill Gates succeeds in making every computer in
the world use Win95, that's a highly unreasonable assumption.

Besides, as has been stated in several other threads, cwsdpmi is the
most bug-free and most liberal DPMI host out there right now.  Just
stick it in with your distribution and nobody will ever notice.

John