Message-ID: <343ADD17.2C58AA30@avicom.net>
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 1997 18:08:39 -0700
From: William Thornton <thornton AT avicom DOT net>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
CC: "Jeff T. Williams" <jeffw AT darwin DOT sfbr DOT org>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: CWSDPMI and LOADHIGH
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I assume you have the himem.sys & emm386.exe loaded?
Check out the dos file "Loadfix.???".  Should be in your dos directory.

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 30 Sep 1997, Jeff T. Williams wrote:
> 
> > Some of the FAQ and mailing-list material discusses
> > the use of DOS LOADHIGH to stuff CWSDPMI into the HMA.
> > Is there a preferred way to do this?  I tried using
> >
> > LOADHIGH c:\djgpp\bin\cwsdpmi
> >
> > in my CONFIG.SYS file,  with and without the -p and -s
> > options, and it hangs the machine every time (a 386SX
> > with DOS 5.0).
> 
> This is a DOS issue, it has nothing to do with DJGPP or CWSDPMI.
> 
> It is usually a bad idea to load a TSR, either HIGH or LOW, in
> CONFIG.SYS.  You need to do that in AUTOEXEC.BAT, or from the DOS
> command prompt, after the system has come up.
> 
> CONFIG.SYS can load device drivers (with DEVICE= or DEVICEHIGH=
> directives), but CWSDPMI isn't a device driver.  CONFIG.SYS can also
> load TSRs with the INSTALL= directive, but AFAIK INSTALL= doesn't
> support loading HIGH, and it only works with some TSRs; I'm not sure
> if CWSDPMI will work with it, but I won't be surprised if it won't.
> So I don't recommend it.
> 
> Why do you need to load CWSDPMI high, anyway?  IMHO, it is not worth
> the hassle in most cases to load it permanently into memory at all.
> The DJGPP startup code will automatically load it when you run a DJGPP
> program and unload it when the program exits.

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