Date: Mon, 21 Apr 1997 09:49:48 +0800 (GMT)
From: Orlando Andico <orly AT gibson DOT eee DOT upd DOT edu DOT ph>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
cc: Chris Croughton <crough45 AT amc DOT de>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: CWSDPMI problem
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On Sun, 20 Apr 1997, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> 
> On Fri, 18 Apr 1997, Chris Croughton wrote:
> 
> > I'm running under DesqView, and letting DJGPP and the programs
> > it generates load CWSDPMI as they want.  That works fine.
> > However, if I run one program in a window, and another in
> > a different window (typically gcc and info) then whenever one
> > tries to exit it comes up with a sharing violation because 
> > they're using the same swap file.  I haven't had any other
> > problems with them sharing (yet).
> 
> Did you try to use QDPMI?  I don't know if it has such problems (I
> don't use DesqView), but given that it is from the same shop, it might
> work better.
>

Err, I seem to have read somewhere that as DPMI hosts go, QDPMI sucks.
You're really better off with CWSDPMI, but (I also think -- I didn't use
DESQview for long) that if there's no QDPMI, DV will use VCPI, which
breaks CWSDPMI quite nicely.. :)

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