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From:	"Michal H. Tyc" <mht AT bttr-software DOT de>
Organization:	BTTR Software
Date:	Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:12:57 +0100
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Subject:	Re: several technical problems
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On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 12:42:12 +1100 (EST), DONALD PEDDER wrote:

> Yes (I didn't realise it was huge until now). Even my WinModem works
> okay when I use it (i.e. don't need the Win drivers). :-)

WinModem under DOS? Very interesting! 
Could you tell us more about this Bitcom?

> Other than bitcom and DR-DOS stuff (e.g. the editor), the only programs
> I'm running are ones I've written myself. How do I build that in? (perhaps
> that's a question for the FPC list)

So if you compile them with appropriate compiler (in case of Pascal
sources, FPC is a good choice), they will use all memory.

> I seem to remember a few DR-DOS sources were made available a while
> back - was the editor one of them?

No. OpenDOS 7.01 "Machine-Readable Sources" package contained kernel
(IBMBIO.COM + IBMDOS.COM) and shell (COMMAND.COM) only.

> :-) Doesn't solve the bitcom/editor problem though. :-( (unless the editor
> source is available for me to re-compile)

You can use other editors. Say, FPC IDE -- multi-window and with no
memory limitation (it is a 32-bit Protected Mode program itself).

>> Some information about minimum memory requirements is stored in EXE file
>> header,

> How do I look at that? Is there a special editor or something? If I do
> a "type" on it all I see is garbage.

IIRC Norton Commander used to show a few details on EXEs with
Quick view (Ctrl+Q) command.

>> Desqview or Taskmgr effectively create separate "640k" (minus
>> drivers)areas for each task.

> So how do I make taskmgr do that (given that it's apparently not doing
> that at the moment)? Go from task-switching to multi-tasking?

It does that, just Bitcom takes much of this 640 Kb.

Michal

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