From:	"Pete Golda" <PGOLDA AT eleceng DOT uct DOT ac DOT za>
To:	Kim Jersin <u940422 AT daimi DOT aau DOT dk>
Date:	Wed, 9 Nov 1994 10:26:56 SAST
Subject:	Re: GnuC memory allocation and swapping do disk.
Cc:	djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

Hi Kim,

> It should not be nessesary to set asside memory availeble for EMS/VCPI 
> usage only. EMM386 present in dos 6.x is able to share XMS/EMS memory. 
> The memory starts of being XMS and is converted for EMS/VCPI usage when 
> required and put back to XMS when released.
> 
> I'am pretty sure I have seen some explanation of this in MS-DOS 
> help.exe with topic <emm386.exe> under notes.

AAhhhh. But you forget your e-mail is directed at a place in the 
middle of the jungle. I'm still forced to use DOS 5.0, because DOS 
6.21 doesn't work with the network, and they can't afford to buy so 
many copies of DOS 6.20 or DOS 6.22. So, I'm stuck with EITHER EMS or 
XMS.

The nightmare continues in that the only version of GNUC that works 
correctly here is the old version, which doesn't have <dpmi.h>, the 
new version has this, but doesn't work.

Back to square one :-)

Anyway, thankyou so much for your interest,
Cheers,
Pete.

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