From: burger AT Mailer DOT Uni-Marburg DOT DE (Christian Burger)
Subject: Re: pbmplus and emm386 noems
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Date: Mon, 15 Aug 1994 09:16:02 +0200 (CES)
Organization: University of Marburg, Germany

Quoting Mike Castle,

> > I have no idea what causes the trouble with the pbmplus binaries
> > available from simtel (maybe the hacking of crt0.o ?). Recompiling the
> 
> More likely the 1.09 go32 I used.  The hacking to crt0 was
> minimal, simply a call to a function that calls setmode().

Neither 1.09 go32 nor 1.12 go32 (or anything in between) work with
these binaries (under DOS 6). Still puzzled...

>...
> package, and therefore is undocumented.  While perhaps DOSKEY
> aliases *might* work (don't know if they work on just the first
> command on a line, or any instance of a program invocation on a
> line, such as after the pipe symbol), batch files will not work
> since they don't allow piping.  4DOS may overcome some of these
> problems.

I haven't tested command.com but batch file piping *does* work fine
under 4dos. Aliases work also, of course. One has to decide what one
considers more important, DOS memory or disk space. The aliases take a
few K of memory, the batch files occupy one 512 byte sector each (on a
compressed drive, otherwise they take a whole cluster).

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Christian Burger, Dept.of Phys.Chemistry, University of Marburg, Germany
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