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From: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: PMODE for DJ
Date: Wed, 15 May 1996 10:36:37 CDT
Organization: Rice University, Houston, Texas
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> When I went there, I saw an intriguing file: pmodedj.txt
> I couldn't download it (no permission :( ) so I couldn't read it - but the
> question is: is this Tran's PMode ported do djgpp? I've heard quite a few
> good things about pmode and I'd like to know if a release is imminent...

Matthias Grimrath has done this port, yes.  He and Chris Matraki have been
improving it, so the version on riceng was not current.  It currently 
imbeds into the stub, so you don't need CWSDPMI at all, but the footprint
is a bit larger if a DPMI provider is present.  It's an awesome piece of
work, and I expect they will unleash it when it's ready, probably fairly 
soon.  Their work also found some bugs in the stub code, so there are some
things to be fixed before it all goes together seamlessly.  It's on my list
of things to look at to make a CWSDPMI-like transient program out of the 
PMODE work they have done so you could try either just by stubediting 
your image.

This development was anticipated - which is one of the reasons we wanted to
separate the DPMI/PM_swap code from the DJGPP code - so they could develop
independently and each build from other sources.  Morten Welinder is also
developing a DPMI 1.0 server (but he's been very busy lately).  Since the
DPMI API is a standard one, anyone can replace CWSDPMI with PMODE or
MWDPMI (or write your own faster, smaller one!) when running under DOS.
It would even be possible to hack in support for V1.x decommited features,
if someone wanted it bad enough.