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From: markb@csg.uwaterloo.ca (Mark Brezina)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: BC++ in protected mode -- how?
Message-ID: <1991Jun6.123407.651@maytag.waterloo.edu>
Date: 6 Jun 91 12:34:07 GMT
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In article <43289@fmsrl7.UUCP> hugh@slee01.srl.ford.com (Hugh Fader) writes:
>I just installed BC++. I tried to compile the windows hello world
>example but it seemed to be taking a very long time so I broke out of
>the compile. Then I remembered a discussion on this group a while back
>about how much faster compiles run in protected mode.
>
>Here's where I ran into a problem. Borland's instructions for running
>BCX, the protected mode compiler, are to run tkernel, then bcx.
>However, tkernel seems to clash with himem.sys and smartdrive.sys. If
>these are installed, when I try to run bcx I get an error message
>indicating tkernel requires 576K. I think himem.sys is giving all my
>extended memory to smartdrive.sys.
>
	 
 	I ran into the same problem when I installed Borland C++.  I ended up
knocking my smartdrive down to 256k from a meg.  BC++ needs lots of extended
memory to run efficiently.  Hello world should compile in about 20-30 seconds.

							Mark Brezina