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Re: another VIO attempt

Subject	Re: another VIO attempt
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From	Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com>
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Date	2024-02-15 17:13 -0800

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xhajt03 wrote:
> On February 15, 2024 at 16:23:54 +0100 Paul Edwards wrote:
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>> Don't you use ArcaOS? It comes with Thunderbird.
>
> No, I use eCS (among others). I know I could install TB (on all my machines... :/ ).

SeaMonkey works fine for news groups as well. For eCS, TB10 or TB17 or 
the equivalent SM would be the simplest to install.

>
>
>> You can get a free account here:
>>
>> https://www.eternal-september.org/
>
> Thanks for the link.
>
>
>  .
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>> One of my experiments involved calling the Kbd calls.
>> I was using the Watcom compiler and libraries for
>> that, and it produced a standalone executable. Would
>> that executable have been marked as level 2?
>
> Actually, I was wrong, you don't need that for the 16-bit calls, sorry for the confusion. :-( I mixed it up with another functionality for which EMX run-time libraries might be used, in particular port access (level 2 allows that, level 3 doesn't). In other words, you can stay at level 3 all the time, regardless from being pure 32-bit code or calling 16-bit API functions via thunking.
>

You can set PROTECTONLY=YES in config.sys to enforce level 3.
Dave

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another VIO attempt Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-02-15 13:13 +0800
  Re: another VIO attempt xhajt03 <xhajt03@gmail.com> - 2024-02-15 04:16 -0800
    Re: another VIO attempt Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-02-15 21:28 +0800
      Re: another VIO attempt xhajt03 <xhajt03@gmail.com> - 2024-02-15 06:47 -0800
        Re: another VIO attempt Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-02-15 23:23 +0800
          Re: another VIO attempt xhajt03 <xhajt03@gmail.com> - 2024-02-15 09:07 -0800
            Re: another VIO attempt Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2024-02-15 17:13 -0800
          Re: another VIO attempt Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-02-17 16:58 +0800
            Re: another VIO attempt Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-02-17 18:09 +0800
      Re: another VIO attempt Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2024-02-15 17:38 -0800
        Re: another VIO attempt Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-02-16 16:17 +0800
          Re: another VIO attempt Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2024-02-16 15:05 -0800
            Re: another VIO attempt Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-02-17 09:44 +0800
              Re: another VIO attempt Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2024-02-17 15:47 -0800
                Re: another VIO attempt Paul Edwards <mutazilah@gmail.com> - 2024-02-18 09:48 +0800

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