Good News: Werner Icking anticipated and solved this problem once upon a time... (read on)... Dirk Laurie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... > Subject: Re: Missing .zip-file > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > using MusiXTeX under emTeX in a MS-DOS environment I have got the > > > following problem: > > > 1. Step: Running TeX is ok > > > 2. Step: Running musixflx --> Error message: ''No DPMI - get > > > csdpmi*b.zip'' > > > > > > I have no idea where to get csdpmi*b.zip. Does it belong to emTeX or > > > MusiXTeX? I also use MusiXTeX under Windows NT (MikTeX/yap) and have no > > > problems. > > > > > > Any hints?! > > > > > > Thank you! > > > > > > Weini > > > > > The error message refers to a free-ware DPMI server, called cwsdpmi. > > It is normally used with programs compiled under the `DJGPP' > > environment for DOS (which is an alternative to the `EMX' environment > > used by the emTeX programs). Three possible solutions: > > > > 1. Use under Windows (any flavour) or OS/2, which provide > > their own DPMI services. > > > > 2. Get the source for musixflx and recompile using the EMX > > development tools. > > > > 3. Get the cwsdpmi program. > > > > For (3), look at a DJGPP directory on a simtelnet mirror site. For > > instance: > > ftp.cdrom.com/pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp/v2misc/csdpmi4b.zip > > > > > > My documentation for DJGPP mentions that there is a German simtelnet > > mirror site, as follows: > > ftp.mpi-sb.mpg.de (directory /pub/simtelnet/gnu/djgpp) > > > Another solution is to compile musixflx.c yourself using a DOS C compiler. > I managed quite well with Turbo C++ 3.0 using the 'huge' memory model. > > Dirk > I recall that Werner gathered a collection of compilations for musixflx to support various systems, realizing that not all PCs or other systems were compatible with the advanced compiled executable provided in the Musixtex distribution... I believe that this collection is available via ftp from ftp.gmd.de in the same directories where MusiXTex is found. On Thu, 26 Mar 1998, Werner Icking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Subject: Musixflx version T.83 - musixflx.zip > > There is now an updated musixflx.zip, which contains following files: > > 40960 12-01-97 17:58 musixflx/OSF1-alpha/musixflx > 39795 12-02-97 14:57 musixflx/Warp4/musixflx.exe > 26523 12-02-97 16:04 musixflx/AIX/musixflx > 62464 12-01-97 18:56 musixflx/Win32/musixflx.exe > 18828 12-02-97 14:14 musixflx/Linux-I86/musixflx > 27236 12-01-97 18:00 musixflx/SunOS-sparc/musixflx > 32768 12-02-97 14:48 musixflx/Hp-ux/musixflx > 41092 12-02-97 12:04 musixflx/Linux-alpha/musixflx > 141276 12-01-97 15:49 musixflx/Dos16/musixflx.exe > 896 12-01-97 17:00 musixflx/Dos16/readme16.mfx > 51 12-01-97 15:48 musixflx/Dos16/build16.bat > 27612 12-02-97 16:07 musixflx/Irix-SGI/musixflx > 18944 12-02-97 16:01 musixflx/AXP-VMS/musixflx.exe > 21890 12-02-97 16:35 musixflx/Freebsd/musixflx > 43353 03-23-98 17:32 musixflx/Mac/MusiXFlx.sit > 49905 03-23-98 17:32 musixflx/Mac/README.sit > 33150 12-01-97 13:03 musixflx/musixflx.c > 2676 12-02-97 12:17 musixflx/musixflx.mx1 > 930 12-02-97 12:17 musixflx/musixflx.mx4 > > If you can generate a version for another system, feed it with .mx1 to > get a .mx2. This should be identical to .mx4. > > Any Amiga version out there? Any other version worth to be put into the zip? > It happens that the Dos16/musixflx.exe will run on almost any PC, including an old XT, if you could get EmTex + MusixTex to run on that! :-) Check the list archives, because I think that even an amiga version was later included (but I don't recall...) Hope this helps. Joel Hunsberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]
