Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 14:34:36 -0500 (CDT) From: IO ERROR To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: apps that argue with DPMI In-Reply-To: <199807041321.JAA15816@mail.taconic.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Precedence: bulk On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Charles Hallenbeck wrote: > My DRDOS is configured with the emm386 parameter "dpmi=on" which I believe > is required because I am using nwcache and taskmgr. Everything is working > well, except for two programs which crash the system unless I first turn > DPMI off before running them. Some programs have some trouble with some versions of DPMI. I forget what reasons are, but I believe you'll find details on the technical problem in your Borland README file. The only solution I can think of besides yours is to use alternate programs that either don't use DPMI or don't crash under DR-DOS. > One of those programs is "unzip386.exe" which I got with my DJGPP software, One alternate program you can use is PKUNZIP, which works fine for me. ($47 from PKWare, http://www.pkware.com/) > and the other is the Borland MAKE utility included in my C++ 4.51 package. In this case, you can use MAKER (the real-mode make which doesn't use DPMI). See your README for more details. -- This is a test of the emergency alert system. If it wasn't, I wouldn't be sitting here on my duff writing E-mail! I'd be running like hell!