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In article <93020.171531HARVEY@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU> HARVEY@SLACVM.SLAC.STANFORD.EDU writes:
>Has anyone been able to run EmTeX 3.14l Beta to run with 386MAX 6.01?
>I keep getting 'DMPI not supported'. I know that 386MAX supports VCPI
>mode.

This should probably go in the FAQ (or in the documents for emtex386).
Anyway, the emx extender used by tex386 is not smart enough to ask
whether VCPI is supported in addition to DPMI, so it doesn't look any
farther after it finds that DPMI is supported (why Mattes doesn't ask
someone with access to a DPMI-compliant 32-bit C compiler to compile
emtex for him is a mystery to me).

Anyway, there is a solution. You tell 386max to turn off its DPMI support.
There's a utility that comes with 386max, called memlimit, and you can tell it

  memlimit nodpmi,N

where N is the number of DPMI requests to refuse. If N=0, then it will
refuse all further requests. If you change your mind later and want to
turn DPMI support back on, you can say, ``memlimit nodpmi,1'' The next
DPMI request will be refused, but the second and all subsequent
requests will be granted.

Thus, I use a batch file, tex.bat, that reads:

rem a loop in case I have more than 9 arguments
set __ARGS__=
:start
if "%1"=="" goto endloop
set __ARGS__=%__ARGS__% %1
shift
goto start
:endloop
memlimit nodpmi,1
tex386 %__ARGS__%
set __ARGS__=

Good luck,
Jon
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