Hi Robert:

It was Sunday August 17 2003. "Win9x and Arachne ?," murmured you to me.

 RB> It turns out I have the GED/GEM/GEN 301 series of archives here, and have
 RB> dim memories of trying and failing to get another version of GoldED to
 RB> work.  Maybe that was the one.

Could've been. There were problems the first time I tried it too (enthused
by its status change to freeware!) which had me beating my head against an
inability to see my .msg netmail area from a Squish config. Turned out
(when I squeaked about it somewhere) that it was a known problem, resolved
by a change to the executable.

 RB> I should add that it normally runs from a MAIL.BAT in the DOS box,
 RB> with ANSI loaded, amongst other things, so I may have less memory
 RB> available in a DOS box than you do.  I'm quite happy with it (and it
 RB> shows my registered status!) and have no plans to change unless/until
 RB> moving to another computer.

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

I used to use a tiny DV-aware ANSI client - ran as a shared program -
called dgansi, that worked very well for me, until I needed to reclaim that
2k of system memory for other reasons...

Bests,

Tim

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