Date:	Mon, 19 Jul 93 09:52:04 +0200
From:	vincent AT physique DOT ens DOT fr (CROQUETTE Vincent)
To:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

Here is a list of remarks for next release of DJGPP:


	* A major problem using GO32, in my opinion, is the exit on "fatal disk
full !..." when swapping, you loose all your work without notice! a possible
solution might be to reserve a specific file on disk with a user define size
which would be the last swapping space before dying : as long as there is free
space on disk, it is used when there is no more then GO32 issue a warning
message and use the space in the specific file. I hope it is not too difficult
to achieve and could be very usefull (at least for me).


	* I think DJ speaks of implenting a user friendly way to handle interrupts
in next release, thus avoidind hacking GO32. It could be nice to reserve a
buffer in DOS memory to allow exchange between 16bits and 32 bits words, I
usually use a 64K buffer allocated with farmalloc() in go32.


	* Small compatibility Pb: using GRX the special key like arrows, end etc
does have the same code using version 1.08 and 1.10, they are shiffed of 256 in
the last version. If there is no reason it could be nice to keep the same code
betwwen the various version. (Also is there a header where these key are
defined, if not I am ready to do it).

Vincent

vincent AT physique DOT ens DOT fr

 

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