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Date: Tue, 22 Apr 1997 11:38:14 +0100
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Once upon a time (on 21 Apr 97 at 11:42) Pierre Phaneuf said:

> > > Huh? EMM386 isn't a pmode server AFAIK... Well, not a DPMI server at
> > > least. The code for a DLL loader should be at the very same place the
> > > code
> > Wrong. In OD EMM386 replaces both HIMEM.SYS (thus it is a pmode server)
> > and a DPMI 1.0 server (although it is a bit buggy - it doesn't work with
> > DJGPP)
> 
> HIMEM.SYS isn't a pmode server, it is an XMS driver! The OpenDOS EMM386 does
True. Confusion of terms ;-) sorry. 

> provide buggy DPMI services, but it is version 0.9 if I remember right...
Maybe... I don't use it anyway. CWSDPMI is much better. Anyhow, EMM is a 
pmode server as it provides VCPI services to the system.

> > > to load .EXE files is. Probably in the DOS kernel. In Linux, the code to
> > That would be the best solution *if* the kernel works in Pmode.
> 
> BTW, grab this month's Dr. Dobbs Journal, they talk about file formats and
> they have an article about object file formats...
Will do, thanx. I know I have seen a format description somewhere on 
ftp.microsoft.com, but I'm going to puke if I ever have to dig my way through 
all the files in their collection of things - has anyone seen any decent 
index of the stuff? They have a great deal of documents out there.
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