To:	DJGPP List <djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu>
Subject:	memory constrained
Reply-To:	pgf AT Cayman DOT COM
Date:	Fri, 28 Jan 94 15:32:04 EST
From:	Paul Fox <pgf AT Cayman DOT COM>

hi -- i have a lot of trouble running the compiler on my HP OmniBook, with
4 meg of memory.  unless i'm careful what drivers i load up, i get
"Error: not enough memory to run go32!" or something similar to that.  now,
this little baby runs DOS5.0, and normally himem.sys, so that's the XMS
driver.  after i get the memory error from go32, if i run go32, it reports
XMS memory available as -4Kb.  before i get the memory error, the same
command shows 2952 Kb free.  in both cases there's loads of swap, of
course.  if i take out himem.sys, i can build just fine, though my ramdisk
no longer loads, since it wants XMS memory.

anyone have any ideas?  i'm pretty new DOS memory juggling, so i could
well be overlooking the obvious -- so don't hesitate to point it out!

paul


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    paul fox, pgf AT cayman DOT com (cayman systems inc. cambr^H^H^H^H^Hwoburn, ma)
    	home: pgf AT foxharp DOT boston DOT ma DOT us (arlington, ma)

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