From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (qmail 30696 invoked from network); 7 Nov 1998 16:19:35 -0000 Received: from mail.redhat.com (199.183.24.239) by mail2.redhat.com with SMTP; 7 Nov 1998 16:19:35 -0000 Received: from postal.clark.net (postal2.clark.net [168.143.0.18]) by mail.redhat.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA10038 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 11:05:27 -0500 Received: from shell.clark.net (clark.net [168.143.0.8]) by postal.clark.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id KAA19552 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 10:55:03 -0500 (EST) Received: from localhost (jdashiel@localhost) by shell.clark.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA19553 for ; Sat, 7 Nov 1998 11:05:23 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: shell.clark.net: jdashiel owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1998 11:05:23 -0500 (EST) From: Jude Dashiell To: blinux-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: DOS limitations under Linux In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19981107161829.00b566d0@194.37.252.195> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII List-Id: Mike, There's an old dos trick that may make it possible without even using linux. If all that was ever loaded was command.com vocaleyes and that monster program that went to 700K then the trick won't work. If on the other hand you loaded other stuff via autoexec.bat on the hard drive, make a system disk that is bootable and has vocaleyes on it. Boot the computer with that disk then type in the path and program name for that other huge program along with command line parameters. wordperfect is like that and can't take advantage of extended memory so when conventional memory runs short for it a similar strategy gets things working. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ jude