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FlWriter version 1.1 available (Announce)

posted by Rugxulo , Usono, 10.05.2012, 14:21

> I do not load emm386 since I do not seem to need it. So now I loaded
> "jemm386 noems load" from the command line. I use MSDOS 7.0 with its
> HIMEM.
>
> This allowed to convert djgppfaq.ps to djgppfaq.pdf with the ps2pdf.bat
> file ok. It took 50 seconds though, 40 secondes without jemm386.

So it works for you with (J)EMM386 / VCPI loaded? Not for me.

> When jemm386 was loaded there was not enough memory to run this batch file
> from the DOS shell. It was possible when using HDPMI32 -r instead of
> cwsdpmi.

I'm talking outside of FLWriter entirely, even then it doesn't work for me. Perhaps there is some other way to tweak things, but I'm not sure offhand (besides weird hack below).

> Since I could not reproduce your problem here I currently do not want to
> use wdosx instead of DOS32A.

This is all still confusing. I don't know if you're experiencing what I am. In any case, my problem seems to be JEMM386 + DOS/32A (though presumably it's only the latter's fault as Causeway, e.g. "cwstub gs386.exe ..." works fine similarly to WDOSX). For me, even with "hdpmi32 -r" loaded, ps2pdf won't succeed when under JEMM386 / VCPI.

DOS/32A 9.1.2 by default nowadays "always" (!) prefers VCPI over DPMI. Don't know why, presumably bugs in other software. Worse is that you can't configure it anymore, and hence even the DPMITST:ON option is commented out and unsupported. Seems strange to always force it in all circumstances (esp. given how many variations in setups there are).

Without changing extenders, the easiest "fix" is something I heard from Japheth a while back. "hdpmi32 -r", "jemm386 novcpi", "ps2pdf djgppfaq", "jemm386 vcpi", "hdpmi32 -u". Then it has no choice but to use DPMI. Or similar, of course, maybe don't even need HDPMI32 specifically, but it's too cool to totally avoid.

Complete thread:

• FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 05.05.2012, 13:32 (Announce)
  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Arjay, 05.05.2012, 15:36
    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 05.05.2012, 16:30
      • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Arjay, 05.05.2012, 17:51
  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Wengier, 05.05.2012, 22:40
  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 06.05.2012, 20:34
    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 07.05.2012, 18:20
      • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 08.05.2012, 03:48
        • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 08.05.2012, 05:44
          • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 08.05.2012, 21:45
            • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 09.05.2012, 06:51
              • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 09.05.2012, 07:53
                • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 09.05.2012, 08:43
                  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 09.05.2012, 20:23
                    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 09.05.2012, 22:39
                    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 10.05.2012, 14:21
                      • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 10.05.2012, 22:04
                        • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 11.05.2012, 00:22
                          • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 11.05.2012, 08:07
                            • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 11.05.2012, 22:27
                              • FlWriter version 1.1 available - RayeR, 12.05.2012, 00:36
                                • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 12.05.2012, 08:40
                                  • GhostScript 7.05 for DOS - Rugxulo, 13.05.2012, 01:44
                                    • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - georgpotthast, 13.05.2012, 10:00
                                      • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - Rugxulo, 22.05.2012, 01:07
                                        • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - RayeR, 23.05.2012, 00:51
                                          • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - Rugxulo, 23.05.2012, 05:39
                  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 10.05.2012, 18:02
              • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 09.05.2012, 08:29