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Paul Richards

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Jan 2, 2013, 12:58:12 AM1/2/13
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I have some Borland Pascal programs originally written for DOS
protected mode. These needed to be run with RTM.EXE and DPMI16BI.OVL.
If I now run them in a Command window under Windows XP is it necessary
to have these 2 files (RTM.EXE and DPMI16BI.OVL) available or will the
programs run without them i.e. does XP handle the 'protected mode'
issues?

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Paul
Melbourne, Australia

Robert AH Prins

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Jan 2, 2013, 10:39:19 AM1/2/13
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This begs for the question: Why don't you just try it?

Robert
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Paul Richards

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Jan 2, 2013, 3:38:11 PM1/2/13
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I have, and it does.

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Paul
Melbourne, Australia

Bill Leary

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Jan 2, 2013, 8:00:34 PM1/2/13
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"Paul Richards" wrote in message
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> Robert AH Prins wrote:
>> On 2013-01-02 05:58, Paul Richards wrote:
>>> I have some Borland Pascal programs originally written for DOS
>>> protected mode. These needed to be run with RTM.EXE and
>>> DPMI16BI.OVL. If I now run them in a Command window under Windows
>>> XP is it necessary to have these 2 files (RTM.EXE and DPMI16BI.OVL)
>>> available or will the programs run without them i.e. does XP handle
>>> the 'protected mode' issues?
>>
>> This begs for the question: Why don't you just try it?
>
> I have, and it does.

Piqued my curiosity with that... Does what? Runs? Requires the two files?

- Bill

Paul Richards

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Jan 2, 2013, 9:01:05 PM1/2/13
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I put a protected mode program in a separate folder without RTM.EXE and
DPMI16BI.OVL and it runs perfectly.

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Paul
Melbourne, Australia
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