From: tdixon DOT no AT spam DOT fwi DOT com (Timothy Dixon)
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Subject: Re: Must be missing something
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 1999 13:19:18 GMT
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On Wed, 23 Jun 1999 15:37:07 +0200, Erwann ABALEA <erwann AT abalea DOT com>
wrote:

>On Wed, 23 Jun 1999, Timothy Dixon wrote:
>
>> I've just tried to install DJGPP on my '486 laptop (8MB RAM) running
>> OpenDOS 7.0.1.  Whenever I try to run the compiler (or any extended
>> program), I get a memory error from emm386.
>> 
>> I have OpenDOS providing me with DPMI memory; should I disable
>> OpenDOS's DPMI and use cwsdpmi instead, or is there another likely
>> problem with my setup?
>
>2 solutions:
>- the easy one, disable the DPMI stuff of OpenDOS when you want to use any
>DJGPP program (dpmi off)
>- the good one, update to OpenDOS 7.03, the DPMI part is much better, and
>you can even have your DJGPP programs working with the multitasker...
>
>-- 
>Erwann ABALEA
>erwann AT abalea DOT com
>

Thanks!  I upgraded and everything works well now!