Subject: PC Pine 3.91 memory requirements

From: [email-masked] (Juan M. Courcoul)
Date: Wed, 14 Dec 1994 15:53:21 GMT

Please forgive my insistence on this question, but my users are getting
cranky... :(

I need to set up PC-Pine for shared use on a public directory in a Novell
fileserver. Setting up the mail folders, addressbooks and the like is not
a problem, since all pertinent environment variables can be set up on
either the user or the system login script. Unfortunately, memory usage is
a severe problem.

After loading up the ODI stack, NETX and perhaps a few other goodies (such
as DOSKEY or McAfee's VSHIELD), the typical PC has left around 450KB of
main memory, plus extended memory (our machines have at least 6MB total
memory). The main memory consumer is, unfortunately, NETX.EXE, which is
indispensable for accessing the fileserver. This is proving to be
insufficent for PC-Pine, which does start up but bombs shortly afterward
due to lack of memory, after attempting to do anything more complicated
than just staring at the main menu.

Is there any way to set up PC-Pine to reduce its memory requirements ?
Perhaps a "swap mode" or something like that ?

Thanks for any insights.

-- 
Juan M. Courcoul                       [email-masked]
Instituto Tecnologico de Monterrey     [email-masked]
Campus Queretaro

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From: Thomas Hucke <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 16 Dec 1994 09:02:30 -0600 (CST)

Juan, why don't you use memeory manager like QEMM or 386MAX to load some
drivers into the upper memory region ? And VSHIELD also use expanded or
extended memory. 

Saludos.
Thomas Hucke
Universidad Autonoma de Baja California Sur
Mexico

[email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Gordon H. Buchan)
Date: 16 Dec 1994 22:57:20 -0500

Load EMSNETX instead of NETX. Use MEMMAKER to optimize memory usage.