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Date: Mon, 10 Mar 1997 12:09:16 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: "David.M.Reed" <dave AT earthling DOT net>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Win95, DPMI?
In-Reply-To: <3322BE5F.2059@earthling.net>
Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.970310120226.28441B-100000@is>
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On Sun, 9 Mar 1997, David.M.Reed wrote:

> In a dos box,  I get about 2Mb physical RAM (!) and quite a lot of swap
> (not sure how much). I want more physical RAM, but can't get it when in
> a dos box.
> If I run is ms-dos mode with cwsdpmi.exe, then I have access to all of
> my computers physical RAM, and plenty of swap.
> 
> But I want to be able to access at least 6-8Mb of my computers 16Mb of
> physical RAM in a dos box. Any Ideas on how I can do this?

The FAQ describes in section 15.6 that you must type a value of 64MByte
into the DOS box property sheet to get maximum DPMI memory in Windows 95. 
Did you do that? 

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