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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles Sandmann)
Message-Id: <9709302018.AA11954@clio.rice.edu>
Subject: Re: cwsdpmi and upper memory
To: molnarl AT cdata DOT tvnet DOT hu (Molnar Laszlo)
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 1997 15:18:42 -0600 (CDT)
Cc: djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
In-Reply-To: <3431355C.51683465@cdata.tvnet.hu> from "Molnar Laszlo" at Sep 30, 97 07:22:36 pm

> switch DOS's memory allocation strategy, and successfully loads cwsdpmi
> high. But it seems that at that point the UMB is full, and when cwsdpmi
> tries to alloc some more memory  that fails, because it only tries the
> high memory. Am I right?

No.  CWSDPMI requests memory from DOS via a call which should return 
high memory if available, low memory if not.  It seems your DOS is broken.

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