From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Help: "Load Error: NO DPMI", why?
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 1997 21:39:26 -0800
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ugsit AT uclink4 DOT berkeley DOT edu wrote:
> 
> Hello: I have an Pentium computer with Window 3.11 and MS-DOS. I just
> downloaded the DJGPP v2 and try to install it, following the instruction
> given in the Readme.1st file. When I got to the step to run 'go32-v2' I
> got a error message: "Load Error: no DPMI". Can someone be kind and tell
> me what it means and how I can solve the problem? thanks so much.

This used to be the single most common Frequently Asked Question for
version 2, until we finally convinced people to read the documentation. 
;)

The file 'readme.1st', distributed with rest of the djgpp files, tells
you that djgpp programs run in 32-bit protected mode (DPMI) and must
have access to a DPMI host in order to run.  DPMI services are provided
by such programs as Windows 3.1/95/NT DOS shell, OS/2 DOS emulator,
Linux dosemu, QEMM386, 386MAX, Novell DOS 7.x, and more.

If you don't have any of these, or run programs under plain DOS, you
will need to obtain cwsdpmi.exe, a free DPMI host designed specifically
for djgpp programs.  It can be downloaded from the same place you got
djgpp as v2misc/csdpmi3b.zip.  Install it like the other djgpp packages.

Once you have cwsdpmi, you will probably want to get and read the latest
version of the FAQ (v2/faq210b.zip), which contains tons of valuable
advice on getting started with djgpp.  You'll probably want the Info
documentation reader in v2gnu/txi390b.zip to view it (and the rest of
the djgpp docs), but the FAQ also comes in text and HTML formats.

Good luck!

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