Date:	Wed, 15 Sep 93 09:04:20 -0400
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To:	rgrimes AT gndrsh DOT cdrom DOT com
Cc:	sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu, djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re: Accessing real memory (ie, below 1MB) under go32

> > 1.11's DPMIsim makes that kind of change to go32.exe obsolete.  I have
> > yet to work in extension mechanisms for int86() though.

> Perhaps we are duplicating work here... I also saw in another note that
> some one had int 13 stuff working for some commercial application that
> required it (my work is also commercial) and was wondering if said work
> was availiable as patches?

The DPMIsim work I'm doing is not being done by anyone else.  It makes
extensions to go32 unrequired by moving all that code into the
application instead.  It is a completely new mechanism for doing this.

> On a side note, I noted that most of your c library is based up on the
> Net/2  release, a lot of that code has since been updated and is now
> availiable from ftp.uu.net and was wondering if you plan to upgrade the
> libraries at any time.  (Reason I ask is that I cross compile under
> FreeBSD which has a lot of the new 4.4 library code and I have to keep
> 2 sets of the headers around and be real carefull :-()

The libraries I have mostly work, so upgrading them isn't on the top
of my list of things to do.  The headers aren't from Net/2 at all.

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