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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DPMI Error
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1996 13:20:17 CST
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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> So, the upshot of all of this is that, even though I can run a 16-bit
> DPMI application from the command line in a Windows DOS box, I cannot
> run that same application from within a DJGPP make instance.  

This is a documented feature of the DPMI 0.9 specification.  DPMI 1.0
avoids this problem, but Microsoft chose to ignore the DPMI 1.0
specification.