Date: Tue, 16 Jul 1996 08:52:21 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Locking RAM for hardware interrupts
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On Mon, 15 Jul 1996, Orbital wrote:

>  Now something about the FAQ, so I suppose this goes to Eli:

Thanks for your comments.  I will incorporate them into the next FAQ 
release.

>     Also, the FAQ makes [used to make] the FAT-DS approach
>     look kinda scary (at least to me). It is clear, that every single
>     Watcom/DOS4GW application uses it (not sure, but I think Borland 4.5+
>     32 bit DOS apps do as well) and nobody seems to care much.

Should I tell you how many times my kids trashed the disk with those
Watcom/DOS4GW apps?  IMHO, this should be scary.  If the FAQ does sound
that way, then for once I managed to explain myself loud and clear. 

>   * The FAQ could [does?] have a hint to prevent GNU Make from crashing
>     under OS/2 Warp. The hint to set DPMI_DOS_API to ENABLED instead of
>     AUTO in DOS Settings for the session. DPMI_MEMORY_LIMIT is also nice
>     to experiment with.

I cannot tell anybody anything about OS/2 setup unless somebody reports 
it on the news group, and in enough detail so I can at least understand 
what am I writing about.  If there are important DJGPP-specific system 
configuration hints for OS/2, by all means post them, and they will be in 
the next release of the FAQ.  I don't myself use OS/2 and don't know 
anything about it (I only heard about DPMI_DOS_API stuff the other day 
when Martynas posted his message).