Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 12:48:11 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Reply-To: grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl
To: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
cc: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Install thingy
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On Tue, 8 Oct 1996, Charles Sandmann wrote:

>> I plan to use zlib from InfoZip to provide internal decompression, integrate
>> the executable with PMode extender. This makes the program entirely
>> stand-alone. 
>
>Beware - the pmode stub does not support virtual memory, so programs bound
>with it will not run in many low memory environments.  CWSDPMI is configured
>such that a DJGPP image should run with as little as 100K of DOS memory and 
>no extended memory free.  If the memory is improperly configured, an image
>won't even run with the pmode stub.  To make the image more universal, you
>would be better off with a standard stub and CWSDPMI.
I wasn't aware about these drawbacks of pmode. I think I'll stick to CWSDPMI
then. Speaking of that, who could send me the patched stub, so that the
install program works on clean DOS?

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