From: "Charles Sandmann" <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: 32-bit apps from ramdisk
Date: Sun, 17 Sep 2000 23:27:40
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>      I have developed a fake UNIX console with DJGPP and I want it to
> run from a big ramdrive (ramdrive.sys as part of DOS) and I would
> like to run a DJGPP executeable from the virtual disk. It is quite
> easy to run on the hard drive with CWSDPMI, but on the ramdisk 
> the DPMI server does not appear to work.

Tell me more.  This may depend on the ramdrive version and how your memory 
management is configured.  In particular, I fixed a bug using VDISK type
ramdisks in CWSDPMI r5's beta.  Try it and see if it helps.