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From: own@castle.ed.ac.uk (O Morgan)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Arity/Prolog & DOS 4.X?
Message-ID: <8144@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 29 Jan 91 17:59:10 GMT
References: <11137@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu>
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In article <11137@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu> todd@uhunix1.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu (Todd Ogasawara) writes:
>I found much to my dismay that Arity/Prolog 5.1 does *NOT* work under
>MSDOS 4.0 (although it works fine under MSDOS 3.3).

It works if you specify the /K parameter with your DEVICE=ANSI.SYS
statement in the CONFIG.SYS file (ie: DEVIVE=ANSI.SYS/K)

>Does anyone know if Arity/Prolog 6.0 works under MSDOS 4.01? I awaiting
>delivery of both my A/P 6.0 update and a brand new 33MHz 386 box. And it
>just occurred to me that I ordered the 386 box with MSDOS 4.01 so I could
>have a single 200MB hard disk partition. It didn't occur to me to ask
>Arity if their new Prolog worked under MSDOS 4.01.

I'd be interested to know what you think of the version 6, particularly
if you've got the Windows toolkit.  Specifically, is there still a 64k
limit to the size of stacks (global,local,trail,...) or can these be set
to higher levels?


Olly  Morgan
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