Date: Thu, 23 Feb 1995 19:07:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Long Doan <ldoan1 AT osf1 DOT gmu DOT edu>
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!

On Wed, 22 Feb 1995, A.Appleyard wrote:

> 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
>   in my CONFIG.SYS. As run like that:-
>   (1) It successfully ran a big Gnu C++ program even when my CD-ROM handler
> programs (including Sound Blaster) were loaded.
>   (2) It successfully ran Windows for Workgroups.
>   (3) But trying to run Word Perfect (5.1 for DOS) when my CD-ROM handler
> programs were loaded, failed "not enough memory".
>   (4) Although my CD-ROM handler programs were all loaded by DEVICEHIGH in my
> CONFIG.SYS and LH in my AUTOEXEC.BAT, yet MEM /DEBUG showed that the whole
> caboodle was stuffed into low memory and nothing at all was loaded high.

  Run memmaker, it'll try to work out the best order of loading the 
device drivers so that you can load the most into memory.

  (Also, there are great memory managers out there that'll let you load 
almost everything high -- I use QEMM, and have 635+ KB of conventional 
memory left.)

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| Long Doan                          ldoan1 AT osf1 DOT gmu DOT edu |
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