From: Adam Majer <ummajera AT cc DOT UManitoba DOT CA>
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Subject: Re: CWSDPMI r5
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2000 01:34:18 -0500
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The same thing happens for OS/2. If your motherboard supports it (ASUS K7V
does) you can select the OS/2 > 64M support in BIOS and that might help
but I'm not sure (too lazy to reboot now to pure DOS and check it out) :)

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Tim Robinson wrote:

> Hi,
> Does anyone know where I can find CWSDPMI release 5, if it exists?
> Recently I've had a weird problem with the DJGPP tools (gcc, make, ld,
> etc.) where they would crash nearly all the time under DOS. I tracked it
> down to the DPMI server (they work fine under Windows NT) and noticed a
> line in the DJGPP FAQ which states that CWSDPMI has bugs on systems with
> more than 64 mb of memory -- I have 96 mb. I have to run under raw DOS 
> (acutally Windows 95 Command Prompt Only) because I am doing OS
> development.
> Is a workaround possible, without taking DIMMs out of my machine or
> rebooting Windows NT each time? Any help would be much appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Tim
> 
> ------------
> Tim Robinson
> timothy DOT robinson AT ic DOT ac DOT uk
> 
> 

    Sincerely,
    Adam