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From:	alex DOT soto AT analog DOT com (Alex Soto)
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Subject:	Re: V2 = hmmm
Date:	26 Apr 1996 16:22:58 -0400
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>>>>> "Alexander" == Alexander Lehmann <alexlehm AT rbg DOT informatik DOT th-darmstadt DOT de> writes:

 Alexander> I'm not sure if I have a similar concept of what driver
 Alexander> is, but IMHO a driver is something that has to be started
 Alexander> in the rc.local, config.sys, System Folder (whatever your
 Alexander> system is), e.g. setting the EMM386 to support EMS while
 Alexander> you usually prefer not to use it due to memory loss or
 Alexander> loading a VESA bios extension. Extenders like dos4gw and
 Alexander> cwsdpmi don't really count as drivers, since they are
 Alexander> loaded at startup (I would say).  As long as you can unzip
 Alexander> your shareware program into an installation directory and
 Alexander> then run it from there, I think nobody will complain.

 Alexander> Compared to dos4gw, go32 and cwsdpmi work better BTW, if
 Alexander> you want to run a Watcom 32bit program from a different
 Alexander> directory, you have to supply the path to the extender
 Alexander> also (d:/foo/dos4gw d:/foo/prog.exe) since it only looks
 Alexander> in the current directory and maybe the PATH, while cwsdpmi
 Alexander> is also found in the directory the program is found in.

Actually, that's not entirely true.  If you get the dos4g pro, you can
embed the dos extender into the executable.  I found this very
convenient...it avoided problems when the customer didn't have dos4gw
in the correct directory and IMHO saved alot of customer calls (though
that is kind of hard to measure).

I'm not sure if people have done this, but it would be nice to have a
comparison for memory usage between the extenders available.
Apparently this new cswdpmi is substantially better than the old go32.
How does it compare to dos4g...in terms of memory usage, speed,
limitations, etc... ?

 Alexander> bye, Alexander

PS  Cool name!  :)

Mystic (aka alex)
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