Hi all, I think most people should be happy with HIMEM now. Most important use for FD*XMS* is the FDXMS286 for 286 based PCs. As EMM386 does not run on a 286, no problem if FD*XMS* is not compatible. Anyway, if you or I should get some free time and enough couriosity, I can recommend to analyze the incompatibility with BOCHS (available for Windows and Linux), which has a great builtin debugger (debugger runs in another window than the window which shows the output of the simulated PC)...
About HTML mail: I vote for plain text, non-flowed, hard-wrapped mail. Something like 66 or 72 columns. Bad if your mail software cannot wrap the mail for you before you send it. Some mail software indeed lacks this important feature - it will just DISPLAY both incoming mail and the mail composer windows in DYNAMICAL soft wrap style depending on the window size, instead of properly wrapping to N columns on send. Sourceforge should indeed be able to convert mail to text and block attached files (they already do block ZIP, even if I try to send to an [EMAIL PROTECTED] address :-|). I do not think that we really get viruses and "mail from not subscribed people": In fact, viruses pretend to be from the list most of the time, instead of being REALLY sent through the list. And Sourceforge is better known than Topica (more "high profile"), so spammers take the effort to subscribe to our lists just to spam us :-(. Eric. PS: "analyze the incompatbility with BOCHS" is ambiguous. I meant: "Use BOCHS to find out why FD*XMS* is not compatible with EMM386". And do not forget that you must not use normal EXE packers for SYS-EXE files. Only the EXE part, not the SYS part of the file will survive that. So HIMEM / EMM386 must not be UPXed nor APacked. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: SourceForge.net Broadband Sign-up now for SourceForge Broadband and get the fastest 6.0/768 connection for only $19.95/mo for the first 3 months! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=2562&alloc_id=6184&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
