From: "John M. Aldrich" Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Cwsdpmi, why isn't it working? Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 19:56:43 +0000 Organization: Two pounds of chaos and a pinch of salt Lines: 41 Message-ID: <33DCF97B.5F2C@cs.com> References: <33DBD3F6 DOT 3553 AT mail DOT coos DOT or DOT us> Reply-To: fighteer AT cs DOT com NNTP-Posting-Host: ppp107.cs.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Jason Dagit wrote: > > I have Win95 and I don't normaly need a dpmi, but there are times when I > would like to use it instead of Windows. I have tried cwsdpmi -p at the > prompt before and all I get is the information about its version. I > have also tried cwsdpmi at the command line. After trying to > activate it still can't use the programs that I am trying to use. I When you run "cwsdpmi -p" you should see the version information and cwsdpmi should also install its resident portion. Type "mem /c" at the DOS prompt and look at the report; CWSDPMI should be listed. If not, then you have a different problem. What error message(s) do the programs return? Is it simply "Load error: no DPMI. (get csdpmi3b.zip)" or something different? In any case, please post it. Some things to check. - Make sure that the cwsdpmi.exe executable is in your PATH, or in the same directory as the program being run. - Make sure that you are using the latest version of cwsdpmi (v3). - Make sure that you are using it with DJGPP v2.x programs, and not v1.x. Mixing versions can be very bad. - Make sure that you don't have any other DPMI-providing memory manager present. Such things would include QEMM386, 386MAX, 4DOS, and Caldera OpenDOS among others. If so, you must either use their services or disable them. - You do have at least an 80386 computer running DOS 3.0, right? (Silly, but I have to ask.) If all else fails, please capture a "mem /c" report to a file (after running cwsdpmi -p) and post it here. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- | John M. Aldrich | "It may be better to be a live jackal| | aka Fighteer I | than a dead lion, but it is better | | mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | still to be a live lion." | | http://www.cs.com/fighteer | - Lazarus Long | ---------------------------------------------------------------------