Date: Thu, 11 Sep 1997 17:07:37 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>
cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: fread slowstart
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On Thu, 11 Sep 1997, Charles Sandmann wrote:

> Except for the problem with DPMI 1.0 hosts, something like passing arguments
> via protected mode should be just as easy or easier than expanding the 
> transfer buffer, and then 64K would not be a limit.

Such a code was in dosexec.c before 2.01, and it was disabled because we 
didn't want to break DPMI 1.0 compatibility.  It shouldn't be hard to 
resurreect it, but we need to decide how to deal with the DPMI 1.0 issue.