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From: Jonathan Mini <j_mini@efn.org>
To: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
cc: "Pedro F. Giffuni" <pgiffuni@fps.biblos.unal.edu.co>,
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Subject: Re: Report on DOSCMD
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On Tue, 6 May 1997, Jonathan Lemon wrote:

> On May 05, 1997 at 06:39:09PM -0700, Jonathan Mini wrote:
> > On Mon, 5 May 1997, Pedro F. Giffuni wrote:
> > > Have you tried to run it with doscmd?
> > > I understand perfectly, but well VM86 HAS limitations...I want AutoCAD
> > > (DOS or windows) and that's more dificult to run than Watcom's C, I
> > > don't think even WABI runs it :(...(I have an impossible wishlist also)
> > 
> > I know the feeling. Watcom's compiler is a very well-behaved program, all
> > it does is nice DPMI calls, so it should run under come mythical future
> > DPMI emulation. (which IMHO should be possibel to write)
> 
> Which is somewhere on my to-do list as well.  It would help if someone 
> could point me to a good source of documentation on DPMI also.

Contact Intel, Literature at 800 548 4725 and order document "240977-001" 
This is the "DOS Protected Mode Interface (DPMI) Specificationn Vesrion
1.0"

I have a copy, it is free, and extremely helpful.

> --
> Jonathan 
> 

Jonathan Mini (j_mini@efn.org)

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