Hi Robert:

It was Sunday August 24 2003. "Win9x and Arachne ?," murmured you to me.

 TP>> I've never had memory issues with it. But I run it direct from a
 TP>> DESQview PIF, with a maximum program size set to 500K base and 4Mb
 TP>> EMS, and no ANSI loaded.

 RB> I can't remember all the details now, but I give the DV window 576K base,
 RB> with nothing set in the EMS box.

That might have been part of the problem? If you're - or rather were! -
using GoldED/386, it well might have expected to find something to play
with above and beyond base, I think. Although the documentation seems to
suggest that as long as it's got 512K base, it'll work, although the less
available memory, the slower it's likely to be.

There are also suggestions in the docs that a large messagebase might have
caused problems if you weren't using GoldED/386 with enough memory, or were
using the 16-bit flavour.

 RB> I use PC Magazine's ANSI13J because it's a .COM file so I don't have to
 RB> load it globally.  It takes about 3K.  I see it's dated 1988  :-)

DGANSI - if memory serves - was proof against ANSI bombs. Mind you, I can't
remember the last time I heard about one of those happening... ;-)

I only rarely load an ANSI driver for anything, these days. When I do need
one, I find dvansi is generally good enough.

Bests,

Tim

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