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to: paul marwick
from: Leonard Erickson
date: 1999-09-14 03:10:01
subject: InspectA

 -=> Quoting paul marwick to Leonard Erickson <=-

 pm> Hi Leonard

 pm> Replying to a message of Leonard Erickson to paul marwick:
 
 pm>> From memory, a wide range of custom libraries were used, so I
 pm>> suspect that the source without them would be of limited value. 
 
 LE> Well, at least one of them needs to be replaced anyway. The one for
 LE> "spawning" a new session under DOS (Alt-Z). Running under some
 LE> software (Netware Lite or Personal Netware SERVER.EXEs) it wouldn't
 LE> swap INSPECTA out, so you'd have 300k of RAM taken up, making it hard
 LE> to run a lot of things when you "shelled out" to DOS.

 pm> Interesting. I must admit that I haven't used the DOS version of
 pm> InspectA for years. Didn't know about that problem... 
 pm> regards, paul

I only stumbled across it by accident. That's the only environment I've
encountered the problem in. "peer-to-peer" *clients* don't have the
problem, only the servers. Weird.


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