Date: Mon, 30 Aug 1999 10:02:08 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca>
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Subject: Re: DJGPP (gcc) and Borland IDE
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On Sun, 29 Aug 1999, Endlisnis wrote:

>     I know that TurboDebug that came with BC3.1 cannot run DJGPP
> programs correctly.  I tried it once and got a message like "no
> DPMI".  And it mentioned getting the zip file for the DOS dpmi
> server, but I was running under Win95, so it may somehow confuse or
> block the dpmi calls.

That's because the Borland IDE is itself a DPMI program, but it's a
16-bit DPMI program.  And the DPMI 0.9 spec disallows running 16-bit
and 32-bit DPMI programs in the same session.  The FAQ explains this
in section 6.8.