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Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 20:41:25 -0500
From: Weiqi Gao <weiqigao AT a DOT crl DOT com>
Organization: Spectrum Healthcare Services
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To: pdftex AT tug DOT cs DOT umb DOT edu, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: dos version
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Hans Hagen wrote:
> 
> When our tex editing environment runs under W95, I call the pdftex
> windows version. The windows pdftex runs ok in a dos box as well as
> indirectly called from the editor or other programs.
> 
> When our environment runs under DOS, I would like to call the dos
> version of pdftex. The pdftex dos version I downloaded from CTAN somehow
> runs well in a DOS box but not under raw DOS (I always start up under
> DOS and from there start W95 if needed.). PDFTEX for DOS reports that
> DPMI is not available, while xms/ems is loaded. Is there a remedy?
> 
> Hans
> 
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Hans,

The required DPMI server is freely available from
ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/csdpmi3b.zip.  The source of
which is in csdpmi3s.zip.  To use, simply unzip the binary
(csdpmi3b.zip) distribution and put the resulted CWSDPMI.EXE in your DOS
%PATH%.

I have no experience of running CWSDPMI.EXE programs and XMS/EMS
programs at the same time though.

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Weiqi Gao
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