Subject: PC-Pine memory requirements

From: "Scott A. McIntyre" <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 08:28:03 -0500

Hello,

We're in the process of implementing an IMAP based email solution for
our institution, but in order to address the needs of machines incapable
of running windows/mac clients, we're trying to get PC-Pine 3.95 to
work.

The problem seems to be that no matter how far we strip down the system
and what drivers are loaded and so on that PC-Pine 3.95 will only do the
most basic of functions and then seize up with memory problems.  I'm not
the person doing the PC testing, but the person who is says that she had
to reduce the machine to almost no functionality to be able to compose
just a simple message, folders and collections were almost out of the
question.

Is this typical?  It seems that it wants about 500k or more to do what
it needs to do.  For now we're sticking with pine 3.91, but it seems odd
that such a glaring error made it to 3.95...

Ideas?

Scott

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 27 Oct 1996 20:48:04 -0800 (PST)

Scott,
You haven't said which version of PC-Pine you are testing.
There are huge differences in memory management among the DOS, Win16, and
Win32 versions.

The DOS version of PC-Pine is the most problematic.  Between 3.91 and 3.95
lots of stuff was added, with a corresponding increase in code size.  It
needs about 15K more than 3.91, at least 500K.  We hope to improve on
that in the future, but it ain't easy...

-teg