Re: DOS box creepers and Tame

["Robert Holmgren" holmgren@xxxxxxxx]

** Reply to message from  on Thu, 24 Oct 2002 08:59:29
-0400


> cd \tame
> tame
> cd \xy
> editor

That's not right. Second line should be:
tame-mon.com
If you installed Tame with its own setup.exe, that should have been tacked onto
AUTOEXEC.NT. When you start XyWrite, doesn't your shortcut call AUTOEXEC.NT
when NTVDM is opened?? You don't want to bypass AUTOEXEC and CONFIG, do you?
XyWrite will be miserable without memory management and that sort of thing...

Look, I spoke with David this AM. Because I coincidentally identified the
source of an unrelated bug that had been troubling him for some time, he says
he "owes" me. (Always nice to be owed.) He says that he didn't include the
code for the "special version" that he sent me in the public release because it
wasn't "adequately tested". (Indeed, he had warned me that there would either
be a dramatic improvement, or my DOS box would crash -- I've not seen the
latter yet, and I've been running all sorts of DOS stuff for a month with this
"special version".) He's got some administrative stuff to do, and then he says
that "this will be at or near the top of the list". What I've been proposing
to him is that he simply force a screen refresh after every char is put, and I
think that's where we're headed. It would do the trick.

And by the bye, a small thing but... the name isn't "Bob" -- it's Robert.
(It's sort of amusing to be called by a diminutive of what is just an Internet
monicker to begin with -- "Robert" -- and not my real name. I sometimes get
phone calls from people who launch the conversation with "Hello Bob!" -- a
convenient tipoff that it's time to hang up. There's something about
presumptuous familiarity that bugs me. NOT that I'm talking about you -- just
the general case...)

Ciao

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Robert Holmgren
holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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