Date: Thu, 10 Oct 1996 13:29:10 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Mark Habersack <grendel AT ananke DOT amu DOT edu DOT pl>
Cc: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Install thingy
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On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Mark Habersack wrote:

> >Beware - the pmode stub does not support virtual memory, so programs bound
> >with it will not run in many low memory environments.  CWSDPMI is configured
>
> I wasn't aware about these drawbacks of pmode. I think I'll stick to 
> CWSDPMI then.

Before falling back, I suggest you check in the InfoZip sources to see how
much memory does it really need to unzip.  Chances are, it needs a
sufficiently small buffer, which you can have even with PMODE.  Remember:
Unzip can be built with a real-mode compiler too. 

> Speaking of that, who could send me the patched stub, so that the
> install program works on clean DOS?

Isn't it part of the latest alpha release?