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Received: from little-miami.iac.net (little-miami.iac.net [198.180.60.135]) by nacm.com (8.6.10/8.6.9) with ESMTP id SAA06606 for <executor@nacm.com>; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 18:28:06 -0700 Received: from ip041214.iac.net by little-miami.iac.net with SMTP id VAA21549; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 21:22:17 -0400 Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 21:22:17 -0400 Message-Id: <199507250122.VAA21549@little-miami.iac.net> X-Sender: jdvanas@access.iac.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: I HATE INDIANA WEATHER <DECLARKG@DEPAUW.EDU> From: jdvanas@iac.net (Josh Vanas) Subject: Re: Windows 3.1 PIF for Executor/DOs Cc: executor@nacm.com X-Mailer: <PC Eudora Version 1.4> Sender: owner-paper@nacm.com Precedence: bulk >I've been trying to figure out the following problem for days now: > > How do I set up a PIF file to enable Executor to run twice at once? (The >only way to do Executor Multitasking at this point.) I've tried allocating >a limit of XMS as small as 512 and as large as -1 (as much as wanted by the >application) and conventional as small as 210 and as large as -1, and setting >the second PIF to -1 on all... the first always runs just fine... the second >always says "Not enough DPMI memory." (By the way, the numbers above are >in Kilobytes.) > Anyway, I have approx. 4 Meg of true physical RAM which should be >available at Executor run time to run it... shouldn't that be enough to >run it twice? (Barely...) I mean, that leaves about .5 Meg to run the applzone >on, which will work (I've tried it...) > > Does anyone know how to set the PIFs? Or how to ensure that Windows leave Have you been able to hot-key away from Executor? When I hot-key back, the screen is garbled. According to the FAQ, this is a problem that can't be fixed under Win3.11. Did you have this problem, and if so, how did you solve it? Josh