Xref: news2.mv.net comp.os.msdos.djgpp:1934
From: Robert Hoehne <Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT tu-chemnitz DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DPMI at boot time??
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 1996 15:05:48 +0100
Organization: TU Chemnitz-Zwickau
Lines: 27
Message-ID: <314D6DBC.3FA8@Mathematik.tu-chemnitz.de>
References: <4ift86$8mp AT beyond DOT escape DOT com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: tantalus-e.hrz.tu-chemnitz.de
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

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.
> 
> Justin
Put the following line (with the correct directory of cwsdpmi.exe)
in your config.sys:

INSTALL=<directory where cwsdpmi.exe is>\cwsdpmi.exe -p


-- 
*****************************************************************
* Robert Hoehne, Fakultaet fuer Mathematik, TU-Chemnitz-Zwickau *
* Post:    Am Berg 3, D-09573 Dittmannsdorf                     *
* e-Mail:  Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT TU-Chemnitz DOT DE              *
* WWW:     http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~rho                       *
*****************************************************************