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From: jjk1@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (Konsultant Josh/fuzzy.happy.green.box)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Mem in dos 5.0
Date: 21 Aug 92 17:50:06 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University

In article <willimsa.714344875@unix1.tcd.ie>, willimsa@unix1.tcd.ie (Gavin Williams) writes:
>
>In the manual, if you type MEM /C it doesn't seem to show the largest UMB
>as the instruction manual says.
>

Yes, actually it does.  Make sure that you have the command

DOS=HIGH,UMB

in your CONFIG.SYS file to enable DOS' use of UMBs.  If you are
currently using QEMM to manage your high memory blocks, let DOS do it!
DOS does a better job (when helped by QEMM).  Use DEVICEHIGH= and LH
(aka LOADHIGH) commands in your configuration files instead of QEMM's
LOADHI.SYS and .COM.  After doing that, you'll get what you expect
with MEM /C, and you'll find that QEMM's status report is just as
meaningless as MEM /C is now.


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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Help : Encryption Algorithms
From: ebolog@elaine.ee.und.ac.za (EDWIN BOLOGNA : THIRD)
Date: 20 Aug 92 13:24:42 +0200
Organization: Electronic Eng., Univ. Natal, Durban, South Africa


Does anyone out there happen to have PAS, C, or ASM source code to decode
and code good encryption algorithms.

Any information at all on any of these algorithms will be greatly appreciated.

        Desperate fellow programmer (And very Greatful for any information)

                E.B. (EBOLOG@ELAINE.EE.UND.AC.ZA)

PS : Please be kind hearted and Assist !
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: A batch programming contest for you
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 04:50:36 GMT

In article <1992Aug18.233207.1159@cs.ubc.ca> yogi@cs.ubc.ca (Yossi Gil) writes:
>I am away from my DOS machine now, but I think that the above ideas
>will work after some polishing. 
>
>	erase echo.*
>	copy %1 echo.*
>	for %%f in (echo.*) do %%f > ext 
>
>The extension of %1 should be in the file ext now.
>
>Joseph (Yossi) Gil                 {alberta,uw-beaver,uunet}!ubc-cs!yogi

@echo off
rem That's a very inventive trick, Yossi.  I expanded a bit. The snag is
rem the the file must exist in order to get the extension. Another
rem question is how do you get the extension name into an environment
rem variable so that we can utilize it.

if not exist %1 goto _out
if exist echo.* erase echo.*
copy %1 echo.* > nul
for %%f in (echo.*) do %%f > ext
type ext
if exist ext erase ext
:_out

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Prof. Timo Salmi
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Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: kestes@nswc-wo.navy.mil (Kent Estes)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Turbo C++ 3.1 -- does it exist ?
Summary: another frantic release question...
Date: 20 Aug 92 17:05:17 GMT
Organization: Naval Surface Warfare Center - White Oak

I've heard that Turbo C++ 3.1 is out.  Is this true ?  If so
can anyone tell me what has changed/improved ?

         K. L. Estes
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: mholtz@sactoh0.sac.ca.us (Mark A. Holtz)
Subject: Book Question
Organization: Sacramento Public Access Unix
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 03:08:33 GMT

Are there any good books out there that goes beyond general C and
goes into programming C specifically under MS-DOS and then under
the Windows enviroment.
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From: israel@unixg.ubc.ca (Robert B. Israel)
Subject: Re: Batch programming puzzle
Organization: University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1992 23:05:10 GMT

Here's another approach, which works in versions of DOS from 2.1 to 5
(tricks like echo.ext and appending to a batch file while it's
running do not).  

     del &&temp1.*
 REM  better not have any files you want to keep with this name!
     copy %1 &&temp1.*
     dir &&temp1.* | find "&&TEMP1" > &&temp2.bat
     echo set ext=%%1 > &&temp1.bat
     echo del &&temp?.* >>&&temp1.bat
     &&temp2

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Department of Mathematics             or israel@unixg.ubc.ca
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Y4
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: homer@theory.TC.Cornell.EDU (Homer Smith)
Subject: BIOS SPEED FOR VIDEO WRITES
Organization: Cornell Theory Center
      
     From a beginner...
 
     I wrote a short program in assembler to write to every pixel on
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 13:18:29 GMT

     On my 386/33 with Trident 8900 chip the program takes 1:10
minutes.
 
     On my 486/33 with identical video board the program takes 11:46
minutes.
 
     Could someone please give me a hint why the 486 is 11 times
slower than the 386. 
 
     Using another program that did a simple INC AX,1 repeatedly,
the 486 was 2.8 times faster than the 386.
 
     Homer
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
From: Ross Ridge <ross@zooid.guild.org>
Subject: Re: Summary: P.D. MAKE for msdos
Organization: ZOOiD BBS
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 20:12:16 GMT

roy%cybrspc@cs.umn.edu (Roy M. Silvernail) writes:
>Now that you mention it.....
>
>I've got a library in progress, and I'm adding modules occasionally.
>Since each module has to be tested before addition, the .obj is
>natuarally not out of date against its .c file.
>
>So... how do I write rules that specify the .lib depend on the component
>.obj's and force the recompilation of said .c files and their
>addition/update into the lib?  (they need to be recompiled to remove the
>main() that lies inside an #ifdef TEST)

The simple solution is not build the .obj file when testing modules
and compile directly to .exe.  Try something like this:

#
# Makefile
#
# By Ross Ridge
# Public Domain
# 92/06/01 07:44:09
#
# make the terminfo/termcap library
#
# @(#) mytinfo Makefile 3.6 92/06/01 public domain, By Ross Ridge
#

CC = bccx
DFLAGS = -v 
CFLAGS = $(DFLAGS) -1 -A -d -f- -G- -H=mytinfo.sym -k- -ms -O -r -Z -X 

LDFLAGS = $(DFLAGS)
DEBUG = -v

AR = tlib
ARFLAGS = /E /C

OBJS1=addstr.obj binorder.obj buildpath.obj caplist.obj capsort.obj compar.obj
OBJS2=fake_stdio.obj fillterm.obj findcap.obj findterm.obj getother.obj gettbin.obj
OBJS3=gettcap.obj gettinfo.obj sprintf.obj tcapconv.obj tcapvars.obj termcap.obj
OBJS4=terminfo.obj tgoto.obj tiget.obj tmatch.obj tparm.obj tputs.obj tty.obj version.obj

# you may need this:
#.SUFFIXES: .exe

# works on Unix, but Borland's make is buggy...
.c.exe:
        $(CC) -DTEST $(DEBUG) $(LDFLAGS) $(CFLAGS) $< -o$@

.c.obj:
	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -c $<

mytinfo.lib: libcmd $(OBJS1) $(OBJS2) $(OBJS3) $(OBJS4)
	del mytinfo.lib
	$(AR) mytinfo.lib @libcmd

test: tputs.exe tparm.exe readcaps.exe sprintf.exe

libcmd: makefile
	echo $(ARFLAGS) & > libcmd
	for %i in ($(OBJS1)) do echo + %i & >> libcmd
	for %i in ($(OBJS2)) do echo + %i & >> libcmd
	for %i in ($(OBJS3)) do echo + %i & >> libcmd
	for %i in ($(OBJS4)) do echo + %i & >> libcmd
	echo , >> libcmd

tputs.exe: tputs.c term.h $(DEFS_H)

tparm.exe: tparm.c term.h $(DEFS_H)

readcaps.exe: readcaps.c $(DEFS_H)

sprintf.exe: sprintf.c $(DEFS_H)


You'ld type "make" to build the library, and "make test" to build the
test excutable.s
 
						Ross Ridge

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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Subject: Re: BIOS/DOS interrupt list
Organization: University of Vaasa, Finland
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 04:54:35 GMT

In article <686@aardvark.Rain.COM> tyrant@Aardvark.Rain.COM (Rex Goode) writes:
>I rely on "The Peter Norton Programmer's Guide To the IBM PC". I have an
>old version, pre-386. I'll bet there's something newer along the same line.

Ah, if we take the book route, then there are a couple of references
in 112730 Jun 13 12:23 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/ts/tsfaq29.zip.

It incidentally covers the original poster's question also from the
"electronic" point of view.  Another reference (in general) to look
at with these Frequently Asked Questions is this nesgroup's special
FAQ by Stan Brown.  It is periodically posted, and if one does not
wait for it to come around one can get it as

 36094 Jul 21 16:34 garbo.uwasa.fi:/pc/doc-net/faqp9207.zip

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Internet: ts@uwasa.fi Bitnet: salmi@finfun   ; SF-65101, Finland
From: nelson@crynwr.com (Russell Nelson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Info on network cards.
Date: 23 Aug 92 08:14:42 GMT
Organization: Crynwr Software

In article <09F11DEAD85F40094B@qut.edu.au> ISB202REID@redgum.qut.edu.au writes:

   I'm looking for some tech info on network cards as I want to try
   and write some drivers for myself.

If you're writing these drivers for MS-DOS for other than academic
reasons, please reconsider.  There are three different driver specs -
ODI, NDIS, and PDS.  I'm sure that one of them would meet your needs.

But if you seriously want to do this, then go get National's 8390
data sheet, and examine the Crynwr packet drivers found on
simtel20.army.mil in pd1:<msdos.pktdrvr> as drivers1.zip and
drivers2.zip.  That'll cover quite a few drivers.

-russ <nelson@crynwr.com>  I'm proud to be a humble Quaker!
Crynwr Software            Crynwr Software sells packet driver support.
11 Grant St.               315-268-1925 Voice
Potsdam, NY 13676          315-268-9201 FAX
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: dataram@tigger.jvnc.net (Dataram Corp. PO Box 7528)
Subject: C compilers
Originator: dataram@tigger.jvnc.net
Organization: JvNCnet, Princeton University, NJ
Distribution: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 18:05:43 GMT

I'm writing a program with extensive macros which blows out
Microsoft C 6.0.  I'm told I need a compiler which uses
memory beyond 640 K like Microsoft 7.0.  Unfortunately,
there's a 10 day lead time on 7.0.  Does any currently
available compiler use extended/expanded memory?

-- 
Michael DeMeis     Dataram Corp. PO Box 7528 Princeton NJ 08543
                   609-799-0071 x229
michaeld@dataram.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: greg@gallifrey.ucs.uoknor.edu (Greg Trotter)
Subject: Looking for SF171 generation software
Followup-To: sender
Keywords: sf171
Organization: A Planet Of His Own
Distribution: usa
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 17:50:31 GMT

Help!

I'm looking for a freeware/shareware/commrecial product to maintain and
print an SF171 (Application for Federal Employment). If anyone can
point me to a *good* product, I would be most appreciative.

					- greg

P.S. The program pointed to by the Archie servers is useless, IMHO.
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: vi for DOS
From: comjohn@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Mr. John T Jensen)
Date: Sun, 16 Aug 1992 21:03:10 GMT
Organization: University of Auckland, New Zealand.

Does anyone know of a (preferably public domain or shareware) vi for DOS?
(Unix addict friend of mine wants to know.  Shows you how strung out it's
possible to get, doesn't it?).

jj

John Thayer Jensen                      64 9 373 7599 ext. 7543
Commerce Computer Services              64 9 373 7437 (FAX)
Auckland University                     jt.jensen@aukuni.ac.nz
Private Bag 92019
AUCKLAND
New Zealand
From: fred@mole.cis.ufl.edu (Fred Buhl)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Axum Scientific Charting program -- how is it?
Summary: tell me
Date: 18 Aug 92 13:22:47 GMT
Organization: Univ. of Florida Animal Science Dept.

Has anyone out there had experience with the Axum program from TriMetrix?
Send me email and let me know what you think about it!  I'll post a summary,
leaving out names to protect the innocent.  ;-)

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: mpalmer@encore.com (Mike Palmer)
Subject: Re: vi for DOS
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 16:56:50 GMT
Organization: Encore Computer Corporation

comjohn@ccu1.aukuni.ac.nz (Mr. John T Jensen) writes:

>Does anyone know of a (preferably public domain or shareware) vi for DOS?
>(Unix addict friend of mine wants to know.  Shows you how strung out it's
>possible to get, doesn't it?).

elvis is a good choice, but there is also a program just called vi on simtel.

He probably wants it because he _has_ to use the "6" editor on a unix system,
and doesn't want to remind himself that there are better editors when at home.
(That's why I use it at home!)


Regards,
Mike palmer
Telephone: (305) 797-2326 (W)   (305) 7546-3146 (H)

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From: stauffer@cc.swarthmore.edu (Glenn Stauffer)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject: Do you use the ABT college financial systems?
Date: 14 Aug 92 15:27:10 GMT
Organization: Swarthmore College Computing Center
X-Xxdate: Fri, 14 Aug 92 16:27:03 GMT
X-Useragent: Nuntius v1.1.1d7

I am researching the college financial products from ABT (Applied
Business Technologies, Newtown Square, PA).

If you are using this product from or have any information about ABT and
would be willing to tell me about your experience and answer a few
questions, please send email to:

stauffer@cc.swarthmore.edu

Thank you

Glenn Stauffer
From: ccaajmf@ucl.ac.uk (John Franks)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: patching software for ASCII files
Date: 20 Aug 92 11:28:11 GMT
Organization: Bloomsbury Computing Consortium, London


I need a little program that takes some form of table of substitutions and
performs them on as ASCII file. The restriction causing the trouble is that
I don't want it to matter where in the file the substitutions are made, how
many times, and so on. So a DOS port of unix diff/patch is no good.

Any ideas?

It's what DOS does with environment strings in batch files...and I know it's 
easy to write something like this. 

Would be nice if the program did it on a binary basis - i.e. it substituetes in
the new string without changing the length of the reserved space & without
writing a new file, but it doesn't matter massively.

Thanks. Dum de dum de dum.


John Franks, ccaajmf@ucl.ac.uk or jmf14@phx.cam.ac.uk to readers in Cambridge.
     "And a thousand slimy things
      Lived on; and so did I."
From: adelaine@milton.u.washington.edu (Alison Blais)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Winspell (Re: No spell check for Win3.1 Write?!)
Date: 17 Aug 92 02:26:31 GMT
Article-I.D.: u.1992Aug17.022631.16155
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle

>> I can't believe there's no spell checker for Write in
>> Microsoft Windows 3.1! What's the deal? Do you have to
>> pay extra for it?
>
>If you need a spell checker, get Win Spell; it's the file winsp201.zip, and
>it's on Simtel20 and its mirrors and the main Windows archive and its mirrors.
>It's shareware, not freeware, but it's only $20, I think, and it'll spell-
>check any Win app, not just Write.

I tried Winspell, and found it _very_ limited.  My solution (though a bit 
awkward) was to save my Write stuff as ascii, and use the shareware spelling
program ShareSpell, which I found to be _excelent_.

Erick.
adelaine@milton.u.washington.edu
ehammers@inson.fhcrc.org
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
From: hetrick@amazonas.ips.id.ethz.ch ( Jim Hetrick)
Subject: PD/SW address book/card file?
Organization: ETH Zurich (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 12:33:51 GMT

Hi,

I'm looking for an address book or card file similar to MS-Windows
CARDFILE (isn't that what it's called?). I have all my addresses
and phone numbers there, but don't use Windows that much anymore;
mainly just to get at my addresses! Is there anything out there
which is similar in functionality to the Windows cardfile, or
better?

Thanks in advance,

Jim

=============================================================================
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hetrick@ips.id.ethz.ch      Interdisciplinary Project for Supercomputing

ETH - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology
CH-8092 Zurich, Switzerland
Telephone: +41 1 256 5766 -\|/- Fax: +41 1 261 0468
=============================================================================

Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
From: dataram@tigger.jvnc.net (Dataram Corp. PO Box 7528)
Subject: Microsoft Compiler Help
Originator: dataram@tigger.jvnc.net
Organization: JvNCnet, Princeton University, NJ
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 1992 19:20:11 GMT

I'm trying to compile a c program with extensive macros
on a 486 with 16MB of memory: 
cl /AH /c /Gt512 myprog.c

I'm getting errors like:
C1056 compiler limit : out of macro expansion space
and
C1002 out of heap space

Do I need a better compiler than Microsoft 6.0?

TIA Michael
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                   609-799-0071 x229
michaeld@dataram.com


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                   609-799-0071 x229
michaeld@dataram.com
From: cmort@NCoast.ORG (Christopher Morton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Timed Macro Facility
Date: 17 Aug 92 19:25:37 GMT
Organization: North Coast Public Access *NIX, Cleveland, OH



Can somebody point me in the direction of a keyboard utility with the following
features:

1. Plays back keystrokes stored in an editable ascii file.

2. TSR (removeable if possible).

3. Executes at a specified time.

4. Delays between keystrokes can be manually adjusted by editing the ascii
script file.

I've tried Playback, Robokey, and Logout to name a few.  None of them combine
the all important features of time control and ascii control file.  If anybody
knows of a program which will do these things, please send me email.

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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc
From: hollen@megatek.UUCP (Dion Hollenbeck)
Subject: Re: CONFIG.SYS tactics
Organization: Megatek Corporation, San Diego, California
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 19:10:40 GMT

>>>>> On Wed, 12 Aug 92 21:54:57 GMT, rdhunt@triton.unm.edu () said:

rdhunt> Since my PC is soooo fast I need a program and/or tip on how
rdhunt> to capture the screen output when booting the CONFIG.SYS file.
rdhunt> (i.e. Can I redirect CONFIG.SYS output to a file?)

If you have a late enough version of DOS, you can use the INSTALL=
syntax to run a program.  I personally use "funky" which prints its
arguments on standard out and then waits for a key to be pressed.  It
returns the value of the key as the exit code (but I do not use this).
I have found that you can run ANY program from INSTALL=.  The one I
use is equivalent to "PAUSE" in a batch file.  I liberally sprinkle
them throughout my CONFIG.SYS when I want to see the results in human
time. 


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                      INTERNET:            hollen@megatek.com
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From: rdhunt@triton.unm.edu
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc
Subject: CONFIG.SYS tactics
Date: 12 Aug 92 21:54:57 GMT
Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

Since my PC is soooo fast I need a program and/or tip on how
to capture the screen output when booting the CONFIG.SYS file.
(i.e. Can I redirect CONFIG.SYS output to a file?)

Please send tips to rdhunt@sandia.gov or post your replys.

Thanks,

The RICHMAN
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.bbs.waffle
Subject: Re: A Poor Stacker application
From: dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (dogbowl)
Date: Wed, 19 Aug 92 16:07:35 NZT
Organization: The Dawghaus BBS
Keywords: stacker

dogbowl@dogbox.acme.gen.nz (dogbowl) writes:

> Problems....
> 
> 1: Sdefrag won't work with more than 16000 files on the disk.
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>    for that matter, Xtree won't either. I had to log each major directory 
>    tree individually and add the file sizes by hand. Also I can't get a 
>    slack space report
> 

Ooops. That should have read SDEFRAG /R


dogbowl at The Dawghaus BBS  ( +64 6 357-9245 )
From: rlmeyering@beckman.com
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: NEED TSR.....PLEASE HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!
Date: 19 Aug 92 21:29:01 GMT
Article-I.D.: beckman.1992Aug19.142901.970
Organization: Beckman Instruments, Inc.

**** PLEASE SEND RESPONSES VIA EMAIL *****

Hi,

I am looking for a TSR that will allow me to enter topics (questions from our
users) along with related text for each topic (answers to the questions). Sort
of a help/reference database. I would like the TSR to be able to handle
multiple accesses (as were on a network). I would like the TSR to allow me 
to search the topic/text database in three ways, these are:

	1. Search all topics only for a search string I enter
	2. Search topic text only for a search string I enter
	3. Search both topic and topic text entries for a search string 
	   I enter.

Once, all topics and or text items have been selected I would like the
TSR to present an alphabetized list of them by topic that I can cursor up
and down and have the topic text display in a seperate window.

Does anyone know where I can get something like this???

Thanks for your help!

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   2500 Harbor Bl. Mailstop X-12       FAX: 714/961-3351
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From: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se (James Hague)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: What's holding up PKZIP v. 2.0 (message
Date: 13 Aug 92 15:11:13 GMT
Reply-To: exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
Organization: Ericsson Network Systems, Richardson, TX

What really amazes me about this whole thing is that it seems
to be a *severe* problem which completely trashes the reliability
of cached 486 systems.  So far, I've only heard about Fastback
and PKZip having problems--a problem which seems to involve
copying large blocks of memory.  If this is true, that a single
bit is occasionally scrambled, then *everything* should start
crashing.  I would assume that Windows does quite a bit of
memory shuffling, as do a great many other applications.

I realize it has become the norm for consumers to accept
bug ridden products, but this 486 problem is a complete disaster.
It effectively means that any piece of software can crash
at any time or that backups or any disk file can be corrupted
without warning.

Or am I overreacting?

---
James Hague   
exuhag@exu.ericsson.se
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps