Date:	Mon, 9 Aug 93 17:38:30 -0400
From:	DJ Delorie <dj AT ctron DOT com>
To:	jweiss AT silver DOT sdsmt DOT edu
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject:	Re:

> I have not seen this "noems" patch yet. In any event, until the release
> of DJGPP 1.11, the following may be of general interest.

The noems patch is part of 1.11

>     device=\dos\emm386.exe ram frame=none

> DJGPP 1.10 is happy, and even my Novell network drivers appear to tolerate
> this configuration. Sometimes the HIGHSCAN option can squeeze even more
> upper memory out of a system, but it causes my office machine to lock up.
> The only serious problem I have found thus far is with the Turbo C 2.0 IDE.
> On my home machine, TC.EXE simply will not run, although TCC.EXE (the
> command-line compiler) seems to work fine, as does BC.EXE (the Borland
> C++ IDE). Go figure.

Yup, I got similar problems also.  The problem is that many
applications expect the frame to be EMS pages 0..3, and that they're
in order.  When you omit the frame, other pages become 0..3 and
programs end up toasting memory.  Omitting EMS altogether seems to be
a much more reliable solution.

DJ

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