Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club! >> Of course, the preferred solution would be to grant Arachne access to >> the ample free memory that modern PCs possess. > Today.... not possible due to the fact that core.exe > is a 16bit program copiled with Borland. But IIRC the Borland C compiler can also compile for the DPMI. > Someday, > this will become possible by doing a 32bit compile via the use of DJGPP > which will then be able to use much, much more memory. > So for now.... 2000 is the limit. Which means that I will have to stay with Arachne 1.87/1.89 until this happens since I can neither afford to lose the last 400 mails in my mail directory, nor am I willing to search in different directories every time I am looking for a particular mail I have written. :-( Well, when will be "someday"? How long will we have to wait? Why is keeping Arachne compatible with legacy 8088/86/286 machines so important if it will run out of memory even on a 386? And how come that Arachne compiles with GCC and runs in Protected Mode in Linux but not in DOS? For now, I would already be satisfied if Arachne would stay a Real Mode program but could at least use a *little bit* more XMS memory so that it would not run out of memory every now and then while trying to display large web pages, downloading large text files or sorting through large amounts of emails. :-/ Sorry if this sounds like I am a bit annoyed - that is probably because I am. Regards, Udo -- The DR-DOS/OpenDOS Enhancement Project - http://www.drdosprojects.de -- This mail was written by a user of The Arachne Browser - http://arachne.cz/ Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Web Browser/Suite for DOS and Linux --