Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:3980 From: Shawn Hargreaves Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Bugs in CWSDPMI and FSDB Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 21:51:36 +0100 Organization: The University of York, UK Lines: 20 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: tower.york.ac.uk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII In-Reply-To: To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp On Thu, 16 May 1996, A.Appleyard wrote: > Like I said, djgpp should have stayed independent of non-Gnu DPMI's > and theirgs and oddities; on entry it should have exited from any > existing protected mode to real mode and then had within itself its > own DPMI-equivalent. Jeez, you don't half go on and on about the same idea :-) What you suggest is _not possible_. No way. Under Win 3.1, Win-95, Win-NT, OS-2, Linux dosemu, and just about any other OS out there except plain DOS, you _can't_ get rid of the DPMI, no matter how much you might want to. Under djgpp 1.x you couldn't get rid of it either: that's why go32 programs had trouble doing graphics in windows DOS boxes. /* * Shawn Hargreaves. Why is 'phonetic' spelt with a ph? * Check out Allegro and FED on http://www.york.ac.uk/~slh100/ */