Mail Archives: djgpp/1995/02/23/15:39:12
On Thu, 23 Feb 1995, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > I have DOS 6.2. I have been experiencing continuous stonewall refusal by my PC
> > to load anything high. So, on advice from someone in djgpp email group I put
> > DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM
> ^^^ (this should be .SYS, yes?)
No, it is emm386.EXE. himem.sys must also be loaded (before emm386), if I'm
not mistaken, in order to be able to load things high. Also, you must
have the line DOS=HIGH,UMB in config.sys before you try to load anything
high (all this is AFAIK anyway).
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