From: eplmst AT lu DOT erisoft DOT se (Martin Stromberg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: DJGPP program on 286/386
Date: 18 Sep 2000 13:59:56 GMT
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Rafał Maj (r_maj AT poczta DOT onet DOT pl) wrote:
: Hi,
: I want to use (not compile) my programs written in DJGPP (+Allegro) on "old"
: computers like 286 / 386...
: 1) Is this possible (if there is only 4 MB RAM) ?

386, yes. 286, no.

: 2) I don't have installed DJGPP on this computers & I'm using only pure DOS.
: On many computers I was getting error messages like "No DPMI memory(...)"
: What I have to install on computer without Windows, to run DJGPP programs on
: it ?

CWSDPMI.

: Where to get this files ?

On your favourite simtel.net mirror in the directory v2.

: 3) If computer will have only 4MB RAM, my DJGPP program using free/new will
: automatic get more memory from disk (under pure DOS) ?

Yes, with a DPMI server supporting virtual memory (CWSDPMI does).

: 4) On computer with 8MB & Win95 - will my program allocate memory on disk
: when needed ? How to setup "Properties" (in Windows) of this program to do
: this ?

No, WINDOZE is the DPMI server. Any writing on disk will be done by
WINDOZE. Set as high as possible values in the DPMI memory DOZE box
properties (65535). Alternatively, boot into plain DOZE and use
CWSDPMI here as well (which will give you more memory than WINDOZE if
you have the disk space).


Right,

						MartinS