X-Authentication-Warning: delorie.com: mail set sender to opendos-bounces using -f From: "Michal H. Tyc" Organization: BTTR Software Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 22:12:57 +0100 X-Mailer: Arachne V1.73;GPL To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: several technical problems MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-2 Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit Message-Id: Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com 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