>If I did not misinterpret this, Bernie said:
>
> "Go to http://www.calmira.org
>
> This will not only give you a Windows Explorer for Windows
3.1, but it
> will make your Windows 3.1 look and feel just like (okay,
better than)
> Win95."
Sorry but no, I quoted (I think I wrote that as well) another mail (that
when I first *tried* to send my mail hadn't gotten to the list... hmm..
that sounds weird. Well it was CCed to me directly (or to the list)). I
actually had another mail to the list that bounched as well (undeliverable
in 6 hours or something like that).
I tried the program and didn't like it. What I did manage to use it for was
to exit windows and run programs that don't work in Windows.
>I wrote the author at one point asking if it does not defeat the purpose
>of a win 3.1 program to offer more features at the expense of requiring
>more and better hardware? He replied that ``memory was cheap'' now, and
>he had better things to do with his time that optimize code to save
>a few bytes here and there.
>
>I dont understand why survpc folks would prefer a progman replacement
>that had the same philosophy as win 95: offer more features at the price
>of a program that is less efficient and more prone to the dread GPFs
>than progman itself.
>
>Could someone explain the appeal?
Sorry, no. Any programmer that cared about the people who use the program
tried to do it as best as he/she can (we can't make everything in ASM now
can we). Searching for easy things to change like saving memmory isn't such
a big hazzle in most (any?) programming languages/source codes.
Unfortunately this Windows mentality that hardware is cheap is spreading,
and is moving more and more into the Linux arena as well.
BTW: Does the speed of my 8.4GB HD decrease in DOS if I add an old 20MB one
as slave? Once I didn't have enough HDs now I have to many to fit in the
computer. I was thinking that I could finally try out FreeDOS on my machine
(I never installed the first version before others reported problems with
the bigger HDs and I don't want to risk it).
//Bernie
http://hem1.passagen.se/bernie/index.htm DOS programs, Star Wars ...
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