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From: "Maan M. Hamze" <mmhamze AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: what is dpmi....
Date: 30 Aug 1996 03:43:26 GMT
Organization: University of Texas at Austin
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Eric J. Korpela <korpela AT islay DOT ssl DOT berkeley DOT edu> wrote in article
<5057lc$74i AT agate DOT berkeley DOT edu>...
> In article <01bb9472$4ac7a0c0$40fb5380 AT maan-m DOT -hamze>,
> Maan M. Hamze <mmhamze AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu> wrote:
> 
> >3.  However, in DOS Mode, the same EMX DOS app needs EMX.EXE to run
> 
> Assuming you don't have a DMPI server loaded.  If you did you would need
> a RSX.EXE running.  (At least the last time I checked EMX.EXE didn't
> support DPMI)
> 
Thanks Eric for the reply.  I believe I got all these differences worked
out.  This was quite important to me as I am working on a povray utility
(the first utility I work on), then for the first time I *actually* had to
make decisions that concern the end user, between using Schnitker's NT09
version of the EMX port (the rsx dual-mode in addition to the
text-based-programs rsxwin are quite neat) or DJGPP.  And yes, as of this
writing EMX.EXE does not support DPMI, but RSX.EXE as you stated does and
works fine with CWSDPMI in MSDOS Mode.
Thanks again,
M

ps:  the documentation of RSXNTDJ promises to have support for dual mode
programs in the next release by the way.  It will be interesting to see how
this would be implemented!
-- 
Maan M. Hamze
mmhamze AT mail DOT utexas DOT edu
http://leb.net/~mmhamze