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Re: Why doesn't gs386 support DPMI? (It does!)

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From: Ken Neighbors
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 1992 05:49
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In article <1992Oct13.054447.12316@leland.Stanford.EDU> wkn@leland.Stanford.EDU (Ken Neighbors) writes:
>I'm getting tired of all the programs that use some proprietary
>memory manager that's incompatible with Dos Protected Mode Interface.

I griped too soon.  Apparently, the AUTO setting for DPMI_DOS_API is not
sufficient.  You have to set it to ENABLED.  Hope this helps someone else.
(This is in OS/2 2.0, settings for a DOS session.)

Ken
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From: wkn@leland.stanford.edu (Ken Neighbors)
Subject: Re: Why doesn't gs386 support DPMI? (It does!)
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