Re: Inform under Windows; TeX
21 Feb 95 17:07:38 GMT
In article <793314305snzos2@moose.demon.co.uk>, Mike@moose.demon.co.uk (Mike Scott) writes:
> In article <5O76Msx.bnewell@delphi.com> bnewell@delphi.com writes:
>
>>Inform/386 won't work under Windows; the memory managers get into conflict.
>>Inform/PC (generic) can work if you have your lower memory optimized to a
>>high degree. I've found that Inform/PC, in wanting about 580k of free low
>>memory, comes teasingly close under Windows. Most people seem to have around
>>570k free which doesn't quite do the job. Running a memory optimizer such
>>as Memmaker (or a real tool such as Netroom or one of those) often will do
>>the job. But the best (not 100 0.000000acetious) advice is to switch to Linux.
>>
> Or OS/2, under which it works wonderfully well.
>
Also, remember that running inform $small makes it choose memory
settings consuming about 100K less, and will still compile quite large
games.
Graham Nelson