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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: PMODE for DJ
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 11:39:31 CDT
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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> What advantages does DPMI 1.0 have ?

A whole bunch, but PMODE is NOT DPMI 1.0.  As a matter of fact, it has less
DPMI 1.0 functionality than CWSDPMI does (so you don't get null pointer
protection, for example).

> Could I make a standalone program with this ?  If so, what .exe size 
> should I expect ?  (I'm thinkin' of an installer, ya see.. =)

The only PMODE stub configuration is for a standalone program currently.
The PMODE stub is like 14Kb in size, so the overall packaging savings 
vs the V2.0 2K stub and 25K CWSDPMI would be around 13Kb.  The distribution
conditions of a modified stub.asm + modified pmode need to be determined -
you might need to ship source which would negate the size savings.