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- From: tadr@doe.carleton.ca (Tom A. D. Riley)
- Subject: Re: How is FrameMaker under OS/2?
- Message-ID: <tadr.728054381@keiko>
- Sender: news@cunews.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Organization: Dept. of Electronics, Carleton University
- References: <1993Jan26.042652.26256@odetics.com>
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- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 13:19:41 GMT
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- In <1993Jan26.042652.26256@odetics.com> frank@odetics.com (Frank Merrow) writes:
-
- >Hi,
-
- >I do not have an OS/2 system up yet, but I am being gently pushed
- >in that direction. I asked the FrameMaker folks if my MS-Windows
- >version would run under OS/2. The official answer is "not reliably".
- >Then I noticed the one byte patch in the OS/2 FAQ (thank you
- >Tim). I less trusting individual might think that FrameMaker had
- >deliberatly put an OS/2 incompatable instruction in the code, but I
- >would never think such a thing!
-
- >At any rate, I was wondering if anyone had actually attempted the
- >patch and how well FrameMaker then runs under OS/2. Also, once
- >patched will the MAKER.EXE file still run under MS-Windows? FrameMaker
- >is the ONE program that is holding me to MS-windows.
-
- I have used it a bit under 2.0. Make the usuall twiddles to the settings
- for maximum speed (see the FAQ) and (very important) pump up the DPMI
- and XMS memory settings to 12 or 16Meg even if you physically have less
- (I have 8). My guess is that this forces os/2 to do the swapping rather than
- maker. In this configuration, I couldn't tell the difference in speed between
- win 3.1 and winos2 GA+SP.
-
- One warning: I find maker unusable in a 640x480 resolution. Make sure you
- have the video driver issue sorted out first.
-