Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!enea!dkuug!ambush!ambone!leif
From: leif@ambone.UUCP (Leif Andrew Rump)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Questions about MS-windows
Summary: Respond to several MS-WINDOWS questions
Message-ID: <438@ambone.UUCP>
Date: 19 Dec 88 11:10:52 GMT
References: <1859@daimi.dk>
Organization: AmbraSoft A/S (Denmark)
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In article <1859@daimi.dk>, olm@daimi.dk (Ole Lehrmann Madsen) writes:
> A Danish company has asked me to help them with some problems they have
> with MS-Windows vers. 2.10. Since I know absolutely nothing about MS-Windows
And another Danish company will answer your questions.

> Thanks for your help.
Selv tak.

> Here are the problems:
> 
> To allow for more memory than the traditional 640 Kbytes we use EMS 
> via the LIM 4.0 driver.
...
> What can be done to minimise memory requirements in 0-640 K ?
Use segmentation.

> Can the dynamic library, partly or totally, be moved to EMS ?
No!

> This is especially a problem when trying to run Code-view, which needs 200 K
> in 0-640 K.
> Is it possible to reduce these 200K? 
We don't have Code-View but I wouldn't be surprised if you need to
specify an option to get Code-View to use EMS but on the other hand
maybe it wont!

> MS-Windows supports only two serial ports. How can this be expanded?
Don't know! But we can find out - but not for free...

> If a program sends a "Post Message" to itself, in order to release the CPU,
> this release apparently does not take place.
> What can be done to achieve this?
Your should use "Peek Message"!

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