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- THIS IS A QUICK SUMMARY OF DPMI INSTALLATION.
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- There is 2 files you will need to PUT in the XPRESS directory or in YOUR
- path:
-
- RTM.EXE
- DPMP16BI.OVL
-
- These program is your protected mode run time managers. There are required
- by Silver Xpress.
-
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- INSTALLING DPMI ON YOUR MACHINE
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-
- Normally, you don't have to do this but if you do, the DPMIINST.EXE
- will help you out.
-
- If you have problems, like unrecognizable machine, then use the
- DPMIINST.EXE program provided.
-
- If the machine is still not recognized or you get a message "A20 LINE
- ALREADY ENABLED", then you may have HIMEM.SYS manager running. Do a clean
- boot with nothing installed and then run the DPMIINST.EXE program before
- reloading HIMEM.SYS again. It will do some checking to see if your machine
- can run in protected mode without lockouts and lockups and then it will
- look at your BIOS chip time stamp and I think it will create a file that
- will contain some INTERNAL BIOS information for your CLONE 286/386 machine.
- Borland will this information for DPMI machine compatibility.
-
- So if you need to go thru this process, don't forget to tell me about it
- and give me the file.
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- XPMAIL/XPREAD ERRORS IF ANY
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- Error
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- 216 - This is the infamous General Protected Fault called GP Fault.
- Protected Mode means that it can run multiple programs and each
- one is "protected from each other", memory will not clash. If it
- does, you will get a GP fault and it will shut down that
- "program" with the error.
-
- This will HELP CLEAN XPRESS OUT like no other system could.
- If Xpress is CALLING memory outside it's bounds, a GP FAULT
- will occur! So report these as soon as possible.
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- And other please try to report in detail as you can.
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