Hi Charles. No, the author of Arachne (M.P.) did not confuse DPMS with DPMI.
Later versions of DR-DOS provide both DPMS and DPMI facilities. If you want to use DR-DOS's DPMI, it's built-in to EMM386.EXE, enable it as a command line switch, however it is reported by the DJGPP people to be buggy - don't know if that's true of the latest (eg. DR-DOS 7.03) implementation. To be on the safe side, just use CWSDPMI for DJGPP stuff. This has the advantage that the DPMI services can be loaded as needed, rather than be always resident, if using this feature of DR-DOS EMM386.EXE. In other words, the DR-DOS EMM386.EXE will occupy more memory if you enable it's DPMI services. Hope that clears things up ... Joe. On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 04:55:52 +0000, Charles Angelich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >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 > 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
