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In article <1992Nov19.030333.16244@viewlogic.com> bill@macro.viewlogic.com (Bill Crooke) writes:

     I have just installed demacs 1.20 and when I run it  I get the following
     error message:

     CPU must be in real mode (not V*^ mode) to run this program.

     Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

      Thanks, Bill C.


Hi Bill,

Were you by any chance running DEMACS from a Windows DOS shell?  I've
run into that problem myself.  It seems that you can't run DEMACS when
Windows is up and running.  In other words, I can only run DEMACS from
DOS.

Another problem I found was that there is some sort of conflict with
the expanded memory manager.  It would take DEMACS well over a minute
to come up and even then it didn't operate properly.  I poked around
in CONFIG.SYS until I found that EMM386.EXE was the culprit.  I now
have the following line in my CONFIG.SYS:

device=emm386.exe off

This seems to eliminate the problem.  DEMACS now loads in about 5
seconds (on a 386, 33MHz) and operates mostly as expected (except for
setting the mark and binding the keypad keys).  When you require
expanded memory, you can execute the following from the DOS prompt:

emm386.exe on 

There's a lot I don't understand about expanded memory, so this may
not be the optimal or even a good solution.  Could someone in the know
comment about this?  Thanks.

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