Hello Joe - At 01:10 AM 11/15/02 +0000, you wrote:
>No, the author of Arachne (M.P.) did not confuse DPMS with DPMI. This is an excerpt from one of the Arachne v1.70 documentation files: > ><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. > >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 ... The only 'thing' that needed to be clear was to use CWSDPMI as told to in the documentation. I think _that_ has been 'cleared up' sufficiently by now and beaten into the dirt in the process. fwiw: The QEMM DPMI driver _does_ work as a substitute for CWSDPMI but I recall no advantages when using it. Charles Angelich The Ghost in the Machine! DOS and W31 Tech website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/ Stories, poems, MP3/MIDI music, and photos website: http://www.undercoverdesign.com/dosghost/faf/ 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
