Hello Joe - At 02:36 AM 11/11/02 +0000, you wrote:
>The DPMS driver is NOT the same as DPMI. It is a Novell >invention, allowing drivers that support it, such as >NWCDEX and NWCACHE (IIRC), etc., to load into Extended >Memory and use only 1K or 2K of conventional memory. This >is NOT the same as loading stuff high (into UMB), so can >be very, very useful when you have a lot of stuff to load. > >However, most drivers and TSR's don't support DPMS, so >don't be dissapointed by those that don't benefit from >this DPMS stuff. >>MSDOS has no DPMI driver that I know of. That's why >>Arachne includes the CWSDPMI.EXE program. >> >>>What is it for exactly? Is it one of >>>those Dos Protected Mode drivers? >> >>Short answer - I never bothered to find out. I did bother to find out later on and posted what I found here earlier: <TD><B>DPMI</B> <TD>0 kB<TD>not limited <TD>required by 32bit version of DJPEG and by 32bit PNG2BMP; do not use DR-DOS DMPI driver - CWSDPMI is included in Arachne package. This is from the Arachne docs. Apparently the author of Arachne thought DPMS was a DPMI driver also? To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
