From: George Foot Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Load error: no DPMI memory...what does this mean Date: 30 Nov 1997 05:15:17 GMT Organization: Oxford University, England Lines: 24 Message-ID: <65qsp5$koq$3@news.ox.ac.uk> References: <01bcfd2e$fa89f780$0300000a AT nutter> NNTP-Posting-Host: sable.ox.ac.uk To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk On 30 Nov 97 01:28:04 GMT in comp.os.msdos.djgpp Richard Sim wrote: : Hi all, could someone please tell me what 'Load error: no DPMI memory' : means, 'cos everytime I try to run a program I wrote it says this, I know : that I have enough memory, 64mb of it! I'm also not out of hdd space for : virtual memory since there's also 2.5 gb free there, what's going on!!! What operating system are you using? The error message means exactly what it said -- the stub which loads your program found that the DPMI server couldn't provide any DPMI memory. The only environment I've found which can give this error is Linux's dosemu, when you don't change the DPMI memory provision to something large enough. Presumably turning down Windows' DPMI memory setting would cause this too. The issue here is not how much physical memory and hard disk space you have free, but how much of that the DPMI server is willing to give the djgpp program. Please say more about your DPMI server, and post the output of `go32-v2' being run under the same circumstances as your program. -- Regards, george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk