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Article #722352Re: Memory problem in DOS
From: ghag... Gary Hageman
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 00:00
Date: Fri, 01 Aug 1997 00:00
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In article <33DB9F10...@ct1.nai.net>, jmsp...@ct1.nai.net says... > >Mark Owen Scott, > > Here's my CONFIG.SYS, less the CD ROM driver that I use: > >DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS /V >DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS D=64 X=C000-C7FF /V >DOS=HIGH,UMB,AUTO >FILESHIGH=50 >BUFFERSHIGH=22 >STACKSHIGH=9,256 >FCBSHIGH=1,0 >LASTDRIVEHIGH=Z >SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:768 /P >DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\ANSI.SYS >BREAK=ON > > You need to load HIMEM.SYS & EMM386.EXE to setup your DOS memory. > > Later. > >Mark Owen Scott wrote: > >> Milan wrote: >> [snip] >> >> Sorry I can't help you with your problem, but I have a similar >> >> situation. My girlfriend's Cyrix 6x86 P-200 claims to have no upper >> memory. None, nada, zip. This means that, while running in true DOS >> mode, it can't run a vast majority of programs. I suspect that Win95 >> has some legacy program that takes that space even when rebooting into >> >> MS-Dos mode. I think I can get by with a boot disk, but those are a >> royal pain in the [], and I'd rather find another way. >> >> From what I've seen, no PC could run Win95 or any modern >> program >> without that upper memory, so I assume it does exist. What gives? >> >> Email replies preferred. >> >> Pastor of Muppets >> >> Xenaphobia: fear of mythical heroines with large breasts. > > > >-- > Good Luck. > >Joseph M. Spreng >jmsp...@ct1.nai.net > >"If it looks like a duck, walks like a duck and quacks >like a duck you've got a duck." -- Dan Rather > > I get nearly the entire 640k with A;\himem.sys A:\emm386.exe ram files=50 buffers=50 dos=high,umb devicehigh=c:\windows\setver.exe devicehigh=(Your cd driver) This of course indicated that I like to use a boot disk. I copy himem.sys and emm386.exe to the disk. Hope this helps. Hope I am not intruding. Dutch
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From: ghag...@tfs.net (Gary Hageman) Subject: Re: Memory problem in DOS Date: 1997/08/01 Message-ID: <5rrbk0$msp@uucp.tfs.net> X-Deja-AN: 261088423 References: <33D5A163.E073DDC0@netvigator.com> <33D76384.7819@worldnet.att.net> <33D7957C.7AA3FD58@netvigator.com> <33DB11B1.62E0280A@cs.utexas.edu> <33DB9F10.7C0D9C6C@ct1.nai.net> Organization: Your Organization Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.os.msdos.misc,comp.os.msdos.programmer,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.rpg,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.sports,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.strategic,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.misc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit