From: DavMac AT iname DOT com (Davin McCall)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: CWSDPMI under DOSEMU under Linux doesn't work.
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 03:35:43 GMT
Organization: Monash Uni
Lines: 27
Distribution: world
Message-ID: <3803fd3f.1864462@newsserver.cc.monash.edu.au>
References: <7tvpna$cb5$1 AT solomon DOT cs DOT rose-hulman DOT edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: damcc5.halls.monash.edu.au
X-Trace: towncrier.cc.monash.edu.au 939785683 16336 130.194.198.138 (13 Oct 1999 03:34:43 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse AT monash DOT edu DOT au
NNTP-Posting-Date: 13 Oct 1999 03:34:43 GMT
X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.1/32.230
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com

I had an idea that DOSEMU supports DPMI by itself, ie without the need
to load a DPMI service provider such as CWSDPMI.

After all, it can run DOOM, I remember reading... (I don't use DOSEMU
myself).

Davin.


On Tue, 12 Oct 1999 12:02:48 -0500, "Damian Yerrick"
<web DOT poison AT pineight DOT 8m DOT com> wrote:

>I brought some DJGPP-built programs to my friend's
>Linux PC and tried them under FreeDOS on DOSEMU.
>They wouldn't run, even though I also brought along and
>unzipped CWSDPMI.
>
>Error message when I started my program:
>66
>Protected mode not accessible
>Protected mode not accessible
>Load error: no DPMI; get csdpmi*b.zip
>99

__________________________________________________________
       *** davmac - sharkin'!! davmac AT iname DOT com ***
my programming page: http://yoyo.cc.monash.edu.au/~davmac/