Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 13:53:30 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: MSDOS + DPMI + Win98
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On Fri, 21 May 1999, taupin wrote:

> But I'm somewhat anxious about one problem: in order to have an amount
> of memory sufficient under Win95, I was advised by Eli Zaretzki to push
> the DPMI memory parameter of Win95/DOS up to 65535 (i.e. the power of 2
> minus one).
> 
> But on Win98, the manual posting is rejected so that I can only post
> 16384, no more.

Are you sure?  Nobody has complained about this until now, so please
describe *exactly* how did you try to set the DPMI memory property
(all the clicks and all the keys you pressed) and what Windows said to
the effect that it rejects the setting.

Alternatively, it could be that the AUTO setting is okay on your
system (it depends on the amount of installed physical RAM), so try
setting it to AUTO and then run `go32-v2.exe' in the DOS box and see
what it reports.

> 1. What is the unit in the DPMI size posting (I suppose it is not a
> single byte)?

1KB.  The advice to set it to 65535 means that you should get 64MB of
DPMI memory.

> 4. Is there any port of djgpp to win32?

No.  But the DJGPP FAQ lists in section 3.6 a few free compilers that
produce native Win32 programs.