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Re: LYNX-DEV DOS, DOS and Windows
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Wayne Buttles |
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Re: LYNX-DEV DOS, DOS and Windows |
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Sun, 27 Oct 1996 08:52:44 -0500 (EST) |
On Sun, 27 Oct 1996, Rob Pelkey wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Oct 1996, Egor Egorov wrote:
> > On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Wayne Buttles wrote:
> > > From my limited understanding of compilers, a true plain DOS port of
> > > the current Lynx2-6 is not possible because some of the obj files
> > > generated are bigger than 64k. If Lynx were restructured there might
> > > be a chance, but a drastic change would take some co-ordination among
> > > the masses. It also generates a very big image--maybe too big to run
> > > on a low end machine without optimizations.
>
> Couldn't you get around this by splitting up the individual .OBJ files
> into multiple segments (if you used the proper memory model)? From my
> understanding individual .OBJ files aren't what's limited to 64K, it's the
> individual code/data/stack segments within those files that are limited -
> I don't know whether you can break up code into multiple segments within
> an .OBJ file, though. My understanding of DOS compilers is rather
> limited, not having done much above "Hello World" in Turbo C for
> Windows... (in console mode... :-))
>
Yes, it might be possible if you restructure the lynx code, but this is
exactly my main point--you can't stay concurrent with the real codebase.
I bet a lynx2-6 would be a big exe too...over a meg at least.
My starting vision for a better lynx running on an XT is to have a
`fairly' good ability to handle most web pages, have forms
capabilities, be curses based and be able to spawn helper apps.
Wayne.
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- Re: LYNX-DEV Re: DOS, DOS and Windows, (continued)
Re: LYNX-DEV DOS, DOS and Windows, Hiram Lester, Jr., 1996/10/25
- Re: LYNX-DEV DOS, DOS and Windows, Wayne Buttles, 1996/10/25
- Re: LYNX-DEV DOS, DOS and Windows, Hiram Lester, Jr., 1996/10/25
- Re: LYNX-DEV DOS, DOS and Windows, Christopher R. Maden, 1996/10/25
- Re: LYNX-DEV DOS, DOS and Windows, Hiram Lester, Jr., 1996/10/25
Re: LYNX-DEV DOS, DOS and Windows, Egor Egorov, 1996/10/26