Date: Sun, 5 Jul 1998 16:48:11 +1200 (NZST)
From: Eric Gillespie <viking AT flying-brick DOT caverock DOT net DOT nz>
To: Charles Hallenbeck <2ndsight AT taconic DOT net>
cc: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: apps that argue with DPMI
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On Sat, 4 Jul 1998, Charles Hallenbeck wrote:

::
::Hi,
::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.
::One of those programs is "unzip386.exe" which I got with my DJGPP software,

Any program run under DJGPP will crash under DR-ROS/OpenDOS DPMI - for
some strange reason, the DPMI spec isn't implemented the same way for
DR-DOS, causing some programs real headaches when they run to what is
_supposed_ to be the real spec - talk to the DJGPP people about the
details...and no, I don't know what the differences are (wish I did
though)

::and the other is the Borland MAKE utility included in my C++ 4.51 package.
::My solution has been to imbed those commands in a batch file which first
::turns dpmi off, runs the utility, then turns it on again before exiting.
::Is there a better solution? Is this a trouble sign that I should take more
::seriously? Just curious.
::
::Chuck
::Second Sight Software
::
::Net-Tamer V 1.11 - Registered
::


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