Message-ID: From: "Da Silva, Joe" To: "'opendos AT delorie DOT com'" Subject: RE: DPMS license (was CTMOUSE [Was: Re: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...] ) Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 09:50:13 +1100 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) Content-Type: text/plain Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Regarding licensing requirements to distribute DPMS.EXE, _why_ should there be such a requirement from Lineo??? ... Novell seems to indicate that it can be freely distributed - to quote from http://developer.novell.com/support/bullets/jun93.htm, "Developers may distribute the server component royalty-free with their DPMS client programs" ... Joe. > -----Original Message----- > From: Matthias Paul [SMTP:PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de] > Sent: Tuesday, 28 November 2000 3:07 > To: opendos AT delorie DOT com > Subject: CTMOUSE [Was: Re: Optimizing CONFIG.SYS...] > > On Sat, 25 Nov 2000 03:35:58 Arkady V.Belousov wrote: > > [CTMOUSE] > > PM> I'll give that a try. Have you used it loaded prior to running TASK > MANAGER > > PM> and using a communications program such as Terminate? How does it > work with > > > > I don't use neither TASK MANAGER nor TERMINATE. I use Windows 3.x and > > TERM90 from Norton Commander and have no troubles. > > I haven t had a look at CTMOUSE sources yet, but I will for sure when > I find the time (currently I m using the LOGITECH 8.something LMOUSE > driver because it supports CLOAKING to reduce the real mode memory > footprint of the driver downto 1 Kb). > > I have a suggestion for CTMOUSE to further reduce the real-mode > memory footprint. If data is not embedded into the code it should > be possible to adapt it to support DR-DOS (and PC DOS) DPMS (DOS > Protected Mode Services) leaving only a stub in the 1st meg. > The DPMS SDK should still be available from Lineo for money, > and shipping the DPMS.EXE driver with CTMOUSE would need licensing > and also not harmonize well with the GPL, of course. > ----- snip -----