DOS Extender + Win 3.0

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From: Ken Anderson
Date: Tue, 20 Nov 1990 21:51

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I am dealing with 2 clients who want to window-ize their
applications. They both currently use Phar Lap's DOS extender
and a suitable C compiler. I'm not up-to-speed on 32-bit compilers,
but I don't get a clear picture from reading Appendix E of the SDK
Reference Manual.

As I see it, you can't run a DOS Extender under Win 3.0 at present.
Although DPMI is implemented, you shouldn't call it directly, but use
the WINMEM32.DLL functions instead. Phar Lap says that they are working on
a DOS extender that will operate under Win 3 (but why use one?).

Has anyone successfully ported a DOS extended program over to Win 3?

What C compiler should I use to generate 32-bit instructions?

Thanks in advance.-- 
Ken Anderson, kea@kasoft.UUCP, 416-274-6244 (fax:416-891-2715)
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From: kea@kasoft.UUCP (Ken Anderson)
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Subject: DOS Extender + Win 3.0
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Date: 20 Nov 90 21:51:58 GMT
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