I'm having trouble running a Cosmic (Whitesmiths) cross-assembler,
X6816, under dosemu (<= 0.98.5):
C:\>x6816 ctempc.c1
#error X6816 V3.60 (2) ctempc.c1:0 can't create tmp0.xE
The DOS extender ("Blinker 3.10 DOS Extender") used here appears to
detect and use a DPMI, VCPI or XMS host (but the only hints I have
were extracted from the executable with "strings", as the release
notes don't discuss DOS memory management).
The other associated development tools work OK, but they were built
with a later version of the same DOS extender ("Blinker 4.10").
$_dpmi is set to 8192 (other memory settings seem to be unimportant,
but X6816 hangs when $_dpmi is off). CONFIG.SYS is pretty minimal,
only increasing the environment space, and not loading HIMEM.SYS or a
memory manager.
The reason I suspect missing DPMI functionality is that this works
fine under OS/2 Warp (our previous development environment) and NT4
(as well as PC-DOS 7 and Win 3.1, of course).
Any ideas?
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