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From: "Mark Habersack" <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Organization: Home, sweet home (Poznan, Poland)
To: DJ Delorie <dj AT delorie DOT com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jan 1997 02:41:48 +0100
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Subject: Re: EMM386 (OpenDOS/Novell DOS 7 version) vs The World
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Once upon a time (on  3 Jan 97 at 20:17) DJ Delorie said:

> > I wrote rsx, an DOS externder for EMX and DJGPP 1.x programs,
> 
> ... and the world has been happy ever since, especially with
> RSXNTDJ1.ZIP (rsx for djgpp v2).  Any future plans for it?
Yes, right. RSXNTDJ1 doesn't work with v2.01 of DJGPP. Why? I haven't 
tested it deeply enough, but none of my projects compiles in 2.01 
while still working with 2.00. Rainer, have any idea on what's wrong?

> No further work is being done with DJGPP version 1.  Does this
> problem exist in DJGPP version 2 also?
> 
> In v2, I think this code is required for other cases, though. 
> Hmmm...
> 
> Workers: Can we reliably detect the Novell EMM386 and work around
> this?  Sounds like a kludge, but the whole fpu emulation with DPMI
> has been a trifle sneaky from the beginning.
AFAIK no. But I think that we should make it a rule of a thumb and if 
the Novell DOS is detected with EMM386 installed, we should assume 
this is The Bad One. 

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