Date: Sun, 17 Mar 1996 17:15:19 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Christian Ward <ward AT escape DOT com>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: DPMI at boot time??
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On 17 Mar 1996, Christian Ward wrote:

> Okay. I'm working on a command interpereter for DOS.. something to
> completely replace the command.com. BUT, I'm having a big problem
> since I can't seem to get a DPMI host (server? whatever) up and
> running before autoexec.bat is run, by which time if the specified
> command shell has any problems it just falls back onto command.com.
> 
> It would seem the solution would be to find a DPMI thingie that was
> loaded with a device line in the config.sys... anybody know of one? I
> thought emm386, but either I'm not giving it the right arguments or
> something, or emm386 doesn't provide dpmi services.

I think DOS 5 and later allow to load TSRs from CONFIG.SYS.  Did you try 
loading CWSDPMI that way?  It has a switch (-p) to load as a TSR.