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From: dmlloyd AT earth DOT execpc DOT com (David Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: ispell
Date: 24 Sep 1997 18:42:04 GMT
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References: <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 970923130754 DOT 14928L-100000 AT is>
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To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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In article <Pine DOT SUN DOT 3 DOT 91 DOT 970923130754 DOT 14928L-100000 AT is>, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>Are you using CWSDPMI and no memory manager?  I think there's a bug in
>CWSDPMI when you need to access memory in the UMBs (the 64k region
>just above 1M mark).  Ispell and Info access the BIOS character tables
>when you want to work in 40-line mode, and DISPLAY.SYS relocates these
>tables, possibly to upper memory.
>

I am probably picking nits, but the area just above 1M is known as the
High Memory Area.  UMBs are located between 640k and 1M.

-- 
(*)  Dave Lloyd
(*)  dmlloyd @ execpc.com

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