Date:	Wed, 17 Mar 93 16:35:28 +0100
From:	buers AT dg1 DOT chemie DOT uni-konstanz DOT de (Dieter Buerssner)
To:	DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
Cc:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: DPMI & new GO32

I found this article in comp.emacs. You might be interested.

Dieter

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Article 6910 of comp.emacs:
Subject: Re: Emacs for window
In-Reply-To: julie AT world DOT std DOT com's message of Fri, 12 Mar 1993 12:06:51 GMT
Sender: news AT ichips DOT intel DOT com (News Account)
Reply-To: toms AT ichips DOT intel DOT com

From my somewhat fuzzy understanding of DOS internals:

To run in 32b mode under DOS a program must access an "extender" that
provides access to the rest of the machine. The demacs go32 is just such an
animal.  Now Windows has it's onw built in "extender". The one that it uses
is incompatable with the DEMACS one.  There are verious standards for
extenders that specify the interfaces.


Now there is an extender that works under windows 3.0. Included at the end
of the note is the message that was posted:

	Ken> From stillson AT mitre DOT org Tue Jan  5 23:53:20 1993
	Ken> Newsgroups: comp.emacs
	Ken> Organization: The MITRE Corporation
	Ken> Nntp-Posting-Host: tsfsrv.mitre.org
	Ken> From: stillson AT mitre DOT org (Ken Stillson)
	Ken> Subject: DEMACS works w/ Win 3.0!  3.1...?
	Ken> Date: 21 Dec 92 21:15:10 GMT

	Ken> Yes, that's right- If you obtain the DPMI converted Go32 from

	Ken>     ftp.sigmath.osaka-u.ac.jp:/pub/Msdos/GO32/DPMI.support,

	Ken> you can get full GNU Emacs working just fine for the PC under Windows 3.0.

	Ken> However, it doesn't seem to work under 3.1.  The instructions are in
	Ken> Japanese (see attachment), and there is a reference within them to "Windows
	Ken> 3.1".  I presume (because the text is near the end of the doc) that it's a
	Ken> "soon to be added" feature.

	Ken> Can anyone translate this documentation (below) and confirm this, and does
	Ken> anyone know what the DPMI differences are between MS-Windows 3.0 and 3.1
	Ken> that might make the difference.  If so we can try to patch the patch.  Does
	Ken> anyone happen to know how to contact Hiroya Tsubakimoto (the author of the
	Ken> DPMI stuff)?

	Ken> Please reply to stillson AT mitre DOT org, or return post.  Thanks!!

	Ken> 	- Ken Stillson
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