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From:	"Rod Pemberton" <dont_use_email AT xnohavenotit DOT cnm>
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Subject:	Re: resident service providers
Date:	Fri, 21 Feb 2014 10:55:23 -0500
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On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 03:17:50 -0500, Martin Str|mberg  
<ams AT dexter DOT ludd DOT ltu DOT se> wrote:
> In comp.os.msdos.djgpp Rod Pemberton <dont_use_email AT xnohavenotit DOT cnm>  
> wrote:

>> What I really need to know is how to code a resident service provider
>> (DPMI enabled TSR) for a DPMI 0.9 host which doesn't support the two
>> DPMI TSR calls (0c00h, 0c01h) that DPMI 1.0 supports.
>
> This isn't exactly what you want, but it should do that quickly and
> easily:
> Take the source code from CWSDPMI and remove support for those two TSR
> calls and recompile...
>

What?!?!  It's not April 1st yet ...  And, I don't see a smiley.

DJGPP provides functions for calling those two DPMI 1.0 calls, but CWSDPMI
being mostly DPMI 0.9 doesn't implement those two calls.  So, I don't see
how removing two non-existant calls from the CWSDPMI source and recompiling
would help me quickly and easily ...  If you're saying it's a long, painful
path not worth traveling, that would've been clearer to simply say.


AIUI, CWSDPMI is DPMI 0.9 compliant with a few DPMI 1.0 calls and features.
But, CWSDPMI doesn't support the DPMI 1.0 TSR calls 0c00h and 0c01h.   
AFAIK,
eighteen other DPMI hosts don't support the DPMI 1.0 calls 0c00h and 0c01h
either.  Even DPMIONE which is almost DPMI 1.0 compliant doesn't support
0c00h and 0c01h.  I know there is probably another twenty DPMI hosts I
could check ...

The issue is I'd like to code a resident service provider.  That's a PM
TSR which uses DPMI to install PM interrupts.  The first issue is DPMI 1.0
specification provides for this via 0c00h and 0c01h calls.  However, I've
not been able to find a DPMI 1.0 host that supports 0c00h and 0c01h calls.
The second issue is DPMI 0.9 hosts don't have support for resident service
providers at all.  A handful of DPMI 0.9 hosts is what I need the resident
service provider to work with.

If I could code a test resident service provider for a DPMI 1.0 host which
supports 0c00h and 0c01h, it might help me figure out how to code one for
a DPMI 0.9 host which doesn't support 0c00h and 0c01h, or whether it's
even possible without needing to update each DPMI host.


Rod Pemberton

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