From: authentic AT tip DOT nl (Rick) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: 32bit DOS protection mode Date: Wed, 04 Feb 1998 19:01:17 GMT Organization: NL-NIC Lines: 40 Message-ID: <6bd2bd$hj6$3@cadmium.aware.nl> References: <6b1bfd$qrn AT news DOT csie DOT nctu DOT edu DOT tw> <34D49F97 DOT 6345 AT cs DOT com> Reply-To: authentic AT tip DOT nl NNTP-Posting-Host: nijmegen-002.std.pop.tip.nl To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk "John M. Aldrich" wrote: >Charlie Root wrote: >> >> Does any body know how to use djgpp to enter 32bit protection mode >> under dos? I know Phar Lap TNT can do it. But I need a free software. >You don't need to do anything. DJGPP programs include code to >automatically load DPMI services when they start. As long as you have a >DPMI environment (Windows 3.1/95/NT, OS/2, Linux, or cwsdpmi.exe under >raw DOS), you are set. >-- >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >| John M. Aldrich | "Animals can be driven crazy by pla- | >| aka Fighteer I | cing too many in too small a pen. | >| mailto:fighteer AT cs DOT com | Homo sapiens is the only animal that | >| http://www.cs.com/fighteer | voluntarily does this to himself." | >--------------------------------------------------------------------- John, And when I reverse the question( like BTW the original author might have ment it): does csdpmi comes with an api which can be used by "any" program to make use of this dosextender, or alternativaly what would be the startupcode to put in that "any" program to make it a valid "csdpmi program " ?? I am sorry to ask this while I of course could have looked it up in the sources, but maybe someone knows this from memory( which would spare me a lot of time/wasted effort), In the spirit of a NON-COMMERCIAL internet, Rick [Even usenet seems to be slowly taken by those stupid moneymakers! Some day they will anounce they bought the world from someone else..;-)]