From: idr AT cs DOT pdx DOT edu (Ian D Romanick)
Message-Id: <199606081648.JAA07237@xavier.cs.pdx.edu>
Subject: Re: Simplest way to access VGA
To: j DOT aldrich6 AT genie DOT com
Date: Sat, 8 Jun 1996 09:48:13 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <199606080336.AA127734968@relay1.geis.com> from "j.aldrich6@genie.com" at Jun 8, 96 03:15:00 am
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> >I was going to use this myself in a program I am writing, but when I used
> >the _dpmi_get_capabilities (or whatever) function, the bit which was
> >supposed to represent page mapping ability wasn't set. (I used the
> >get_capabilities function in case the program was being run under a DPMI
> >0.9 host)
> 
> Are you sure you don't already have a resident DPMI provider (like QEMM
> or Windoze?)  If you do, your program will use its DPMI instead of CWSDPMI.

Hrm...does that mean that the only way to run a program that uses this
feature on a Win95 machine is to force the user to do a DOS boot?  I
don't think that most people would find that very appealing...unless
there is some other way to force it to use some other DPMI provider?

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