Mail Archives: djgpp/1997/06/20/19:20:25
From: | "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
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Newsgroups: | comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Subject: | Re: DPMI newbie
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Date: | Wed, 18 Jun 1997 22:07:07 +0000
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Organization: | Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt
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Message-ID: | <33A85C0B.63D7@cs.com>
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Reply-To: | fighteer AT cs DOT com
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To: | djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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DJ-Gateway: | from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
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Pao Wee Boon wrote:
>
> I've downloaded DJGPP last night since I am interested in 32-bit DPMI
> programming. Having DJGPP on my system now gets me excited but I don't know
> how to go about starting a PM program, let's say a PM file manager. Do I
> need to do any special inits or load any DPMI server?
All you need is a DPMI host present in your system. DPMI is provided by
such programs as Windows 3.1/95/NT, QEMM, 386MAX, OS/2 Warp, Linux, and
more. If you run from plain DOS, you need to get the free cwsdpmi DPMI
host that accompanies the DJGPP distribution.
The startup code in all DJGPP-compiled programs handles all aspects of
setting up PM operations for you. All you need to do is start coding.
> BTW, I've also downloaded a TVision archive from one of the SimTel sites,
> but I've found almost no docs (except the Readme, of course!). Now how I do
> go about using those libs? Do I use them just like what I did with
> Borland's C++ TV?
All you should have to do is include the appropriate header files and
link the library into your executable.
hth
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| John M. Aldrich | "If 'everybody knows' such-and-such, |
| aka Fighteer I | then it ain't so, by at least ten |
| mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | thousand to one." |
| http://www.cs.com/fighteer | - Lazarus Long |
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