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From: "Ned Ulbricht" <nedu AT ee DOT washington DOT edu>
Organization: University of Washington
To: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 20:41:26 -0800
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Subject: Re: Updated URLS for downloading DPMI spec
CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>, DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
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A little while ago I sent mail to DJ and Eli about updates to the 
urls given in the faq and libc.inf (dpmi.txh) for obtaining the DPMI 
spec.

Since external urls are subject to frequent change with little or no 
notice, it seems to me that instead of listing them in various places 
in the distributed info files it makes more sense for the info files 
to provide a stable url pointing to an online list of links.  

Attached is a text file containing updated links that I discovered 
this afternoon--this shows what I mean.

I would also be willing to render this text file into html, if 
someone would provide a server to host the on-line list of links and 
take over maintainance.  (I'd do this myself except that my 
allocation on UW ftp and http servers goes away right after I 
graduate--so those are certainly not stable urls to put into the 
distributed info files!)

Then I'd be willing to provide a diff for the 2.02 alpha dpmi.txh 
file, editing it so that it just contained pointers to the list of 
online links and to the dpmi spec at www.delorie.com (since DJ 
controls that url it's presumably stable :).
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Ned Ulbricht
mailto:nedu AT ee DOT washington DOT edu


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!!!! DRAFT !!!!
Obtaining the DPMI Specification
!!!! DRAFT !!!!


This is the currently maintained list of links for obtaining the DPMI
specification as of 14 Feb 98. The latest version of this list is
available from:

ftp:// ?WHERE? /get_spec.txt
http:// ?WHERE? /get_spec.html

If you have the latest version of this list and notice that any of the
links are outdated please let ?WHO? know.


You can browse the version 1.0 specification online at:

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/dpmi/

or download HTML files from:

http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/doc/dpmi/dpmi-spec.tar.gz


A text copy of the DPMI version 1.0 specification is available by
anonymous ftp from: 

ftp://ftp.intel.com/pub/IAL/software_specs/dpmiv1.txt
ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos/programming/specs/dpmi100.zip


A text copy of the DPMI version 0.9 specification is available by
anonymous ftp from: 

ftp://ftp.qdeck.com/pub/general/dpmispec.zip
ftp://x2ftp.oulu.fi/pub/msdos/programming/specs/dpmispec.arj


You can also obtain a ?PAPER? copy of the DPMI version ?VERSION?
specification by contacting Intel and ordering document number
240977-001.


Some information about the DPMI API is also found in the Ralf Brown's
Interrupt List, which is available by anonymous ftp in the directory:

ftp://ftp.simtel.net/pub/simtelnet/msdos/info/

in files named inter##?.zip where ## should be replaced by the latest
version number (e.g. '56') and ? is a letter for each section of the zip
distribution. Look at the functions of Interrupt 31h, or search the
files for the word `DPMI.' 


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