DR> figure, I said to myself. Doing some sleuthing, I find if I don't
DR> attach my Netware 3.12 using VLM's, CAPTURE, etc., then my compile
DR> time is a blistering 13 seconds on my Pentium 90.  Is there some way
DR> to tell PB32 NOT to look at the fact that I am "ON" the network so
DR> that I can get the 13 second compile times without having to re-boot
DR> or/and do a "dual boot" thingy?  Dave N, Bob Z, any hidden switches?
  
it may be more simple than that.  I've noticed that the PB IDE is very
unhappy unless it has lots of DOS 640k memory to play around in, even
if you have scads of EMS and XMS for it.  So even though its reporting
that is has lots of memory, it really doesn't.  We run Novell at work
with its 3C5XX, IPXODI, LSL, etc it hogs lots of memory real quick even
loading them high, not to mention the drivers I need for certain
interface boards (national ieee-488 boards being the *worst* for eating
up memory).  With all that junk loaded PB's compile times go from
'pretty decent' to 'take a nap while waiting' even though there is 16
meg in system and most of that is XMS.  
 
Another irritant to this is that the IDE hogs up so much memory that I
can't run any problems when using dos shell (off file menu).  I have
found by using a program called shroom that I can use the SHELL command
in my code and it will write the ide and my program to disc, but it
doesn't pick up when PB's IDE does its shell so end up having to exit
the ide, run the dos app I needed (usually just pkunzip or something
like that) then having to restart the ide.  Just a nuisance when
deep in programming mode....    eric
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