No, it isn't unmaintained. Just contact Sandman via email! bye
On Tue, 12 Sep 2006 15:23:48 +0200, Blair Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I tried all of those versions, with and without EMM386, and all fail. > and cwsdpmi is unmaintained. > > On 9/12/06, Eric Auer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi Blair, >> >> > Hi. I couldn't get any version of cwsdpmi that worked properly in >> > QEMU, so since DJGPP apps look for cwsdpmi.exe I renamed HXDPMI to >> > cwsdpmi because it "just works". BTW, cheers to Japheth :-). >> >> Thats very bad reasoning. As bad as people who are using kernel >> 2037 because they like, say, the nice looking config menu better, >> ignoring the fact that 2037 has several known real bugs. While HXDPMI >> does work okay, it is definitely NOT the same as cwsdpmi. In parti- >> cular, cwsdpmi has a configtool (for example to configure whether and >> which swapfile to use) which will certainly not work with HXDPMI. >> >> And as no docs for HXDPMI are included, how should I manage to >> get a non-swapping *dpmi for DOSFSCK like that, for example...? >> By the way, you should probably config the cwsdpmi default exe >> for the distro to have swapfiles disabled anyway. Especially as >> the distro can be used from cdrom... >> >> Do include both HXDPMI (and other HXxyz tools) and CWSDPMI. >> Do include the docs and tools for both HXDPMI and CWSDPMI. >> Do not fool users. >> >> http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/~eric/stuff/soft/by-others/ >> cwsdpmi-csdpmi5b.zip >> should do what you want. If it does not, there will likely >> be a bug in your app, in emm386, or both. Report that bug. >> >> There are alternative versions on the original homepage: >> >> http://clio.rice.edu/cwsdpmi/ has basic docs, source, binary >> http://clio.rice.edu/cwsdpmi/knownbug.html explains "r5updtst" fix >> http://clio.rice.edu/djgpp has all versions and "bigstack" fix >> >> > r5updtst fixes: enable PSE only when avail, not when TSC avail >> > clear upper 16 bits of ESP on mode switch >> > do extra serializing jump on mode switch to avoid PentiumIII bug >> >> > bigstack fixes: as GeForce4 BIOS takes 230 bytes stack, the 256 byte >> > default int stack is too small. Similar problems happen with >> > some SCSI BIOSes. So the bigstack cwsdpmi has bigger stack. >> >> > unfixed: page faults may happen, esp if no swapfile is used, >> > if more than 256 MB int15 but no XMS or VCPI are available. >> >> Eric >> >> > On 9/11/06, Japheth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> [in reply to: somebody found that cwsdpmi in the distro is hxdpmi] >> >>> C:\FDOS\BIN>cwsdpmi --help >> >>> HDPMI32 v3.05 (c) japheth 1993-2006 >> ... >> >> - CWSDPMI and HDPMI are not fully compatible. Different cmdline >> options >> >> and different environment variables which they will check. And no >> >> documentation is included for HDPMI ... >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, >> security? >> Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job >> easier >> Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache >> Geronimo >> http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 >> _______________________________________________ >> Freedos-user mailing list >> Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user >> > > -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
