From: Chris Croughton Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: Bash as the only shell Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 07:54:22 +0200 Message-ID: <35611E8E.69D8@amc.de> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: bob.bob.bofh.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 28 To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Precedence: bulk Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Mon, 18 May 1998, Chris Croughton wrote: > > > I now use QDPMI (part of the QEMM memory manager) loaded before DesqView > > and no problems (except if I want to run Borland C++, I have to turn > > DPMI off first because it wants to use its own memory manager). > > Desqview should be used with its native DPMI. I'm surprised it even lets > you load CWSDPMI (Windows, for example, doesn't). DesqView itself doesn't use (or provide) DPMI at all, it uses EMS to do its work. QEMM (which is the best memory manager to use with DV because they were designed to work together, but DV will work with other memory managers which provide EMS like EMM386) provides EMS and XMS and also includes a TSR DPMI manager QDPMI. This gives DPMI services which are sufficient for DJGPP (mainly 0.9, it also provides some but not all 1.0 functionality) but which aren't enough for Borland C++ (which then crashes because it can't work out what it has got). QDPMI can be switched off easily, though (QDPMI OFF), which allows Borland to run its own DPMI manager (which incidentally /won't/ work with DJGPP!)... > Thanks for the info. Since I was the one who originally reported problems with multiple applications I thought I ought to dispell any fears I'd raised ... Chris C