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to: VICTOR LOBERGER
from: DAVID CALAFRANCESCO
date: 1997-07-31 22:26:00
subject: Netscape & WinOS/2

Victor Loberger wrote in a message to David Calafrancesco:
 VL> Hi David,
 DC> I have 128mb of RAM and still force my swap file to 
 DC> start at 65mb. Don't be afraid of using swap space. 
 VL>         All I can say is "Wow!"  8-)  As I said, I have 48
 VL> Megs of RAM and I start out with a swap file of 4 Megs.  In
 VL> the last ten days, it has grown to 9 Megs because of
 VL> Netscape, which is the only program that increases the size.
 VL>  I wonder if I started bigger if Netscape would eventually
 VL> increase the size?  8-) 
Yup, grab a page full of JPGs and watch Netscape grow... 
This system is a heavy workhouse server/BBS system. It was just rebooted so 
only current threads are shown:
There are 41 Processes with 135 Threads.
This machine's uptime is 0d 0h 18m 57s 591ms.
That is what this thing runs 24/7 and only grows more processes and threads 
if I start running stuff ;)
 DC> To get netscape running, you probably had to enable the 
 DC> OS2 version of sockets.dll and move the correct resolv 
 DC> file into the DOS/ETC directory and make sure that the 
 DC> sockets.dll that Netscape leaves around dissapears as 
 DC> well as making sure that device=vdostcp.sys is loaded 
 VL>         Well, the only WINSOCK.DLL in the path is the one in
 VL> the WinOS2/System directory.  The vdostcp.sys is being
 VL> loaded in the settings for the session.  Sure wish I could
 VL> remember what I did back in January.  8-)
Double check the resolv files then. 
 DC> in at least that session. But, I have never done the 
 DC> above just figure that would be how to do it if I were 
 DC> so inclined as to use single threaded Win3.x tools 
 DC> instead of real software. 
 VL>         8-)  Actually, I'm beginning to adjust to
 VL> Netscape/2.  I may even be bold enough to try some of the
 VL> plug-ins.  I'm just running the bare version of Netscape/2. 
 VL> It is nice to have everything on my desktop without having
 VL> to do any  key.
There are definately reasons to like Netscape/2. Make sure you are running a 
version downloaded from IBM after June 27th 1997 as a major bug fix appeared 
that day. 
Dave Calafrancesco, Team OS/2
dave@drakkar.mhv.net
... They got the library at Alexandria, they're not getting mine! 
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