(Excerpts from a message dated 10-10-99, Will Honea to Murray Lesser)

Hi Will--

ML>     My current question is whether it is possible to update
ML> (modify) OSRM2 so that it can use the Theseus3 files.  C.O.L.
ML> Systems' BBS hasn't answered its telephone for well over a year,
ML> although someone is still paying the fee to keep it alive...

WH>Everything I have runs jsut fine with the new version (Theseus/3) if
  >I load only Theseus5.sys from config.sys and have only the
  >Theseus0.dll and Theseus1.dll from the new package in the libpath. 
  >All the access is thru these dll's which in turn use the .sys driver
  >to gather info. The ordnals in the DLL's look to macth the old ones
  >so I would guess that only the internals have changed.  Try 'hiding'
  >all traces of the Theseus/2 versions and see how you make out.

    I think I tried an equivalent of that yesterday, but I tried it
again this morning.  No go.  OSRM2 went through the Working Set motions
but when I told it to "START" it gave me the "program is having a
problem" popup.  I guess the references to the DLLs are hard-coded in,
or something.  So I went back to the old way: two different
device=theseus*.sys calls in CONFIG.SYS, and the DLLs for each monitor
in the same (working) directory as the monitor.  Now, either monitor

will work, but it doesn't seem possible to get both of them to monitor
the same process at the same time.

    I'm not sure that this is a real problem.  There is something much
more fundamental.  When I do a Working Set analysis with each of them
(not simultaneously) I don't get the same answer :-(.  Theseus tells me
that the process needs much more working space than does OSRM2.  Since
Theseus provides more information than does OSRM2 (once I figure out how
to use it!), I suppose I should just delete OSRM2 (it's archived on a
floppy if I ever want it back), and stick with Theseus/3.  All I have to
do now is to play with it enough to figure out what it is telling me.
What I need is a good textbook on the subject.  Any suggestions?

    Regards,

        --Murray

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