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gilligan@bldrdoc.gov (Jonathan M. Gilligan) writes:

>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.

actually there is a better solution --- if you are willing to hack a little
bit:
 - get EMX.EXE, EMXL.EXE and EMXBIND.EXE from the new emx V0.8f package
   (I beliebe it is in emxdev.zip on ftp-os2.nmsu.edu or the main
   TeX server in Stuttgart Germany)
 - use EMXBIND to update the EMX copy in TEX386.EXE to version 0.8f
Works for me without any problems.

Eberhard Mattes has fixed the above mentioned problem in emx V0.8e
(TEX386.EXE beta 8 comes with emx V0.8d built in)

Good luck,

- Clemens