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Re: Problems with dosstart.bat and exiting to DOS for some apps - HELP

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From: Marc Van Schandevijl
Date: Mon, 01 Jul 1996 00:00
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pjk@aimnet.com (Philip J. Koenig) wrote:

>>Always be careful to give advice based on one experience. I am a
>>consultant, installing a lot of computers, and most of the time
>>memmaker does what it is supposed to do.
>>There ARE better tools, but memmaker is free and it works. Of course
>>you can try afterwards changing your config or autoexec, but for most
>>of the people this is much to difficult...


>Right.  Well, I'm a consultant too, and *I* say Memmaker sucks as well.

>Why?  Let me count the ways:

> 1) Cannot recover half the time if something freezes or doesn't work right   while optimizing.

Had no problems with this

> 2) Creates files in the DOS directory which often force the machine into  
> non-optimal states during the next attempted optimization, especially   
> if the previous optimization didn't work right.

It always recovered everything in the original state

> (...)

>I haven't touched that dog-of-a-program for years.  

As you probably know things are changing fast in our business. Maybe
you could try the latest version? :-)

>Phil

I didn't say this is the best program around for the job but my
experience is that for most users memmaker does what it's supposed to
do. Most users are also not capable of juggling with their autoexec
and config, let alone that they know of the existence of them...


Marc Van Schandevijl
cluma@innet.be

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From: cluma@innet.be (Marc Van Schandevijl)
Subject: Re: Problems with dosstart.bat and exiting to DOS for some apps - HELP
Date: 1996/07/01
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