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Re <9210140117.AA23619@cookie-crisp>
<1992Oct13.054447.12316@leland.Stanford.EDU>:

> I'm getting tired of all the programs that use some proprietary
> memory manager that's incompatible with Dos Protected Mode Interface.
> I'm no DOS programmer, so maybe it's hard to use, but it just makes
> the product impossible to use.  I heard that a 386 protected mode
> program should first check to see if something else is running in
> protected mode and use DPMI if available.  Then I could run gs386
> in an OS/2 DOS box or a windows DOS box, and take advantage of my
> semi-blazing 486/33.
> 
> Comments?

Ghostscript uses a royalty-free DOS extender written by Rational and
provided by Watcom.  If you know of a commercial C compiler that
generates true 32-bit code and comes with a royalty-free
DPMI-compatible extender, please tell me how to get it; I'd be happy
to consider switching.  (For this purpose, I don't consider dgjcc and
dgjpp to be commercial compilers.)

			Thanks --

L. Peter Deutsch :: Aladdin Enterprises :: P.O. box 60264, Palo Alto, CA 94306
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