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- From: manis@cs.ubc.ca (Vincent Manis)
- Subject: Re: emTeX and Windows 3.1
- Message-ID: <1992Aug28.210834.27862@cs.ubc.ca>
- Sender: usenet@cs.ubc.ca (Usenet News)
- Organization: Institute for Pure and Applied Eschatology
- References: <1992Aug19.163446.15088@morgan.ucs.mun.ca> <gyan.714267806@unixg.ubc.ca>
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- Date: Fri, 28 Aug 92 21:08:34 GMT
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- In article <gyan.714267806@unixg.ubc.ca> gyan@unixg.ubc.ca (Gyan P.
- Sinha) writes:
- >The message means that emTeX (386) is not a DPMI compliant program, which
- >is a convention about how memory hungry DOS programs get and manage the
- >"unconventional" memory they need. Thus, Windows will not let it run in
- >the DOS box. There are two solutions;
- >(1) Run it in native DOS.
- >(2) ... run it under OS/2 in an OS/2 window.
-
- I have found the 286 version of emTeX to be quite satisfactory. I run it
- in a DOS box in Windows Enhanced mode, giving it a couple of meg of
- expanded memory, and it runs just fine. Sure, it's not as fast as the
- 386 version, but it can typeset 25 pages (and I use intricate macros and
- odd fonts!) per minute on my PC.
-
- It would be very nice if the 386 version of emTeX were DPMI compliant,
- but until that happens, I have no reason to switch.
- --
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