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Re: Protected Mode 386 C compilers

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From: John A. Slagel
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 18:20
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S.Culverhouse@lut.ac.uk writes:

>Last year some time, I dowloaded DJGCC but when I ran it on my machine, I got
>a "Cannot run in V86 mode".  This was because I was running EMM386.EXE under
>DOS5.  I asked about this on the net, and was told that there was now an upgrade
>that allowed me to run the compiler with EMM386 running.

>Has anybody got any info about this, and whether this version is at clarkson.
>Any help would be most welcome, and replies through e-mail would be much
>appreciated.

     I had the same problem... You must let the EMM386 provide EXPANDED
     memory, and then DJGPP will work.  When EMM386 doesn't provide EXPANDED
     memory (NOEMS?) then it runs with the CPU in V86 mode.

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