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From: "Rod Pemberton" <do_not_have AT noavailemail DOT cmm>
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Subject: Re: FreeDOS, cannot open swap file cwsdpmi.swp
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:36:36 -0400
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"Rugxulo" <rugxulo AT gmail DOT com> wrote in message
news:b73cdb6a-950b-47c5-bd85-14d191281a46 AT y36g2000yqm DOT googlegroups DOT com...
> On Oct 27, 2:24 am, jimm <jmich DOT  DOT  DOT  AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
> > On Oct 26, 9:13 pm, Rugxulo <rugx DOT  DOT  DOT  AT gmail DOT com> wrote:
> > > On Oct 26, 7:25 pm, jimm <jmich DOT  DOT  DOT  AT yahoo DOT com> wrote:
>
> > > I want to completely eliminate the possibility of CWSDPMI using swap.
>
> > > Since apparently you're using CWSDSTUB.EXE, you'll have to use
> > > CWSPARAM.EXE (or similar) to change the default path "c:\cwsdpmi.swp"
> > > to something invalid, e.g. "" (nothing), which (IIRC) by default will
> > > just put a '\0' in the drive byte of the path.
>
> > how *exactly* do I do that with cwsparam? do I use this instead of
> > cwsdstum or in addition to, or what's going on here? help me out.
> > the manual doesn't work.
>
> ================
> F:\>copy /b cwsdstub.exe *.bak
>
> cwsdstub.exe => cwsdstub.bak
>
> F:\>cwsparam cwsdstub.exe
>
> Full name of paging file ("" to disable) ? [c:\cwsdpmi.swp] ""
>
> Number of page tables to initially allocate (0=auto) ? [0]
>
> Minimum application memory desired before 640K paging ? [512Kb]
>
> Paragraphs of DOS memory to reserve when 640K paging ? [3840]
>
> Paragraphs of memory for extra CWSDPMI internal heap ? [256]
>
> Maximum size of swap file ? [128Mb]
>
> Value of run option flags ? [0]
>
> F:\>cwsparam -v cwsdstub.exe

Does PMODETSR.EXE use swap?  I.e., If not, then I would change the DPMI host
for it using STUBEDIT.EXE.  E.g.,

STUBEDIT my_exe.exe

It has five options, just hit enter for the first four.  Change the last one
to PMODETSR.EXE.  You'll have to copy PMODETSR.EXE instead
of CWSDPMI.EXE to your floppy.

Mimimum amount of stack space (bytes/K/M) ? [0x80000 (512k)]
Size of real-memory transfer buffer (bytes/K/M)? [0x4000 (16k)]
Base name of ilfe to actually run (max 8 chars, ""=self) ? [""]
Value to pass as file component of argv[0] (max 16 chars, ""=default) ? [""]
Program to load to provide DPMI services (if needed) ? [CWSDPMI.EXE]


Rod Pemberton