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- From: bwilliams@marvin.ag.uidaho.edu (Brad Williams)
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- Subject: Re: BP 7.0 bug??????
- Message-ID: <bwilliams.12.727994804@marvin.ag.uidaho.edu>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 20:46:44 GMT
- Article-I.D.: marvin.bwilliams.12.727994804
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- In article <35180@adm.brl.mil> lee@cpu.us.dynix.com (Lee Crites) writes:
- >From: lee@cpu.us.dynix.com (Lee Crites)
- >Subject: Re: BP 7.0 bug??????
- >Date: 22 Jan 93 19:17:42 GMT
- >On 22 Jan 1993, Duncan Murdoch wrote:
- >> In article <35168@adm.brl.mil> lee@cpu.us.dynix.com (Lee Crites) writes:
- >> >I am getting this message a LOT with BP7. Is there a bug here? I have
- >> >4meg of RAM, and set up my computer so that the only TSR's kicking around
- >> >are the mouse driver and SSTOR (SuperStore disk compression utility). I
- >> >ought to have loads of room, but can't seem to get at it. I can't even
- >> >get most of the TV demos to run from within the IDE (^F9) without running
- >> >out of memory. I played with this some last night, but didn't make any
- >> >headway. I ran the utility that cam with BP7 to test the EMS, and it
- >> >worked fine. I also have the IDE set up to use EMS (something I had to do
- >> >quite early just to get some of my other programs to compile).
- >>
- >> It sounds as though you're using TURBO, not BP, since BP can't use EMS.
- >> TURBO has the same limitations as it did in 6.0 - only edit buffers go into
- >> EMS, all the rest has to fit in low RAM. If you want to make good use of
- >> all of your memory, you have to use the protected mode IDE instead.
- >>
- >> Duncan Murdoch
- >
- >Thanks. Yes, you are right, I am using TURBO. TP7 must take up more room
- >than TP6 did, because some of the things that I could compile and run
- >under TP6 won't under TP7. It's kind of annoying to have to exit to DOS,
- >TPC /m whatever, then go back in. Another problem is that the IDE will
- >allow you to specity a list of subdirectories to search for TPU's but the
- >command line compiler doesn't recognize that list. I have to copy the
- >TPU's from all over into the current subdirectory to get TPC to work.
- >It's a real pain in the, uh, well, you know.
- >
- The command line compilers (CLC) do take switches to specify the
- subdirectories for units. Run the CLC without any input file and read the
- screen to get a list of switches.
-
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