To: "A.Appleyard" <A DOT APPLEYARD AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
Cc: DJGPP AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: Re: I can't get high! 
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 95 19:26:22 +0200
From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>

> I have DOS 6.2. I have been experiencing continuous stonewall refusal by my PC
> to load anything high. So, on advice from someone in djgpp email group I put
>     DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM
                           ^^^ (this should be .SYS, yes?)

Of course it will refuse, you cannot load anything HIGH *unless*
your machine is in V86 mode, which *requires* some memory
manager like EMM386 or QEMM386.

> use my CD-ROM reader. Please: How can I get my PC to load stuff high, while
> also being in REAL mode not V86 mode so djgpp can run???

DJGPP shouldn't have *any* problem to run in V86 mode, I use it
this way all the time.  So your solution would be to use EMM386
so you could load device drivers and TSRs HIGH, and this shouldn't
give you *any* trouble whatsoever.  If DJGPP won't run in that
configuration, tell us more about exactly how it fails.