From: "Matthias Paul" Organization: Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2000 16:42:18 +0100 Subject: Re: cloaking X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.22 Message-ID: <21401562F19@reze-1.rz.rwth-aachen.de> Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com On Tue, 18 Jul 2000 Alex Venn wrote: > > Does somebody know about it? > > What's to know ? It's a "cloaked" DPMS server. No, it provides a "cloaked DPMS server" (if no DPMS server running already and not using the undocumented /NODPMS option). Comparing DPMS and Cloaking, I think, they both have alot of similarities, and while CLOAKING has the advantages of being hi-loadable and being supported by the LOGITECH mouse driver, it does not work with the DR-DOS multitasker (task-switching is OK, though), does not work well on a 286, and does not work on machines with more than 64 Mb of memory. (This applies at least to the issue I have - from the Logitech mouse driver package - if I recall correctly it was 2.01???) Comparing DPMS and Cloaking at API level, Cloaking is kind of a superset of DPMS (for example in Ralf Brown's INTER61, which BTW is out since a week or so), however, I don't see any real technical advantage of Cloaking compared to DPMS. So, new TSRs should use DPMS not Cloaking IMHO. Matthias ------------------------------------------------------------------- Matthias Paul, Ubierstrasse 28, D-50321 Bruehl, Germany eMail: Web : http://www.rhrz.uni-bonn.de/~uzs180/mpdokeng.html -------------------------------------------------------------------