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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles W. Sandmann)
Subject: Re: No DPMI
To: SAM AT argonaut DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
Date: Fri, 4 Jun 1993 21:44:32 -0600 (CDT)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)

> I had a slight problem with 386max - It provides both DPMI & VCPI.
> Since I have other things that need DPMI, I added  'nodpmi' option
> to the GO32 env variable. While I was at it, I changed a couple of
> things that occured to me for exceptions - no stack backtrace on ^C
> and restore old video mode if it has changed.

I like your idea on the 'nodpmi' option, and the reset of video mode.
I don't like the suppression of traceback on ^C - this was added so you
could track down where infinite looping programs are looping (the ones
that always behave in the debugger, or are too infrequent to catch).


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