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FlWriter version 1.1 available (Announce)

posted by georgpotthast , Germany, 08.05.2012, 21:45
(edited by georgpotthast on 08.05.2012, 22:14)

FlWriter starts gs386.exe as a subprocess including a second shell and leaving cwsdpmi and its files in memory. On my PC this leaves 367kb for gs386.exe and that does only allow to convert small postscript files to PDF. You can shell to DOS from the FlWriter menu and run mem.exe to see how much memory is left.

I added the ps2pdf.bat file into the directory. If you make a postscript file e.g. from the readme.htm file, you can exit FlWriter(not shell to DOS) and call "ps2pdf.bat readme" (not readme.ps) to generate a PDF file with all the memory available for gs386.exe.

Rugxulo, I will also see if I can run strip with gs386.exe but I doubt that this will gain a lot of memory space compared to what cwsdpmi already requires. Yes, hdpmi32 will probably help - if you do not want to do it from the command line.

Georg

I just tried it. Yes, wstrip will reduce the size of gs386.exe. But in real mode DOS I could make a PDF file from readme.htm with both versions of gs386.exe using the menu. It takes quite a long time though! I only had 285kb available not 367kb as mentioned above.

Complete thread:

• FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 05.05.2012, 13:32 (Announce)
  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Arjay, 05.05.2012, 15:36
    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 05.05.2012, 16:30
      • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Arjay, 05.05.2012, 17:51
  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Wengier, 05.05.2012, 22:40
  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 06.05.2012, 20:34
    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 07.05.2012, 18:20
      • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 08.05.2012, 03:48
        • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 08.05.2012, 05:44
          • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 08.05.2012, 21:45
            • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 09.05.2012, 06:51
              • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 09.05.2012, 07:53
                • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 09.05.2012, 08:43
                  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 09.05.2012, 20:23
                    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 09.05.2012, 22:39
                    • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 10.05.2012, 14:21
                      • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 10.05.2012, 22:04
                        • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 11.05.2012, 00:22
                          • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 11.05.2012, 08:07
                            • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Rugxulo, 11.05.2012, 22:27
                              • FlWriter version 1.1 available - RayeR, 12.05.2012, 00:36
                                • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 12.05.2012, 08:40
                                  • GhostScript 7.05 for DOS - Rugxulo, 13.05.2012, 01:44
                                    • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - georgpotthast, 13.05.2012, 10:00
                                      • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - Rugxulo, 22.05.2012, 01:07
                                        • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - RayeR, 23.05.2012, 00:51
                                          • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - Rugxulo, 23.05.2012, 05:39
                  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 10.05.2012, 18:02
              • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 09.05.2012, 08:29