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Date: Wed, 25 Feb 1998 7:55:03 GMT
From: fran AT isis DOT demon DOT co DOT uk (Fran Berry)
Organization: DIS(organised)
Reply-To: fran AT isis DOT demon DOT co DOT uk
Message-ID: <28858@isis.demon.co.uk>
To: opendos AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: uninstall failure update
Lines: 27

In article <199802250505 DOT AAA07415 AT delorie DOT com> you write:

>      I got a little lost in what was happening?  I installed 702 over 701
> and have found it to respond simularly with the emm386 still at times
> causing total crashing. What I have determined that for some reason I cannot
> have the "high" command for the files or fcbs and also
> is that when I have the fileshigh or fcbshigh used in the config a
> emm386 error is always made when trying to enter W31.  This is the time it
> happens most frequently so I leave them not loaded high.


I followed the same route, but I have everything "high" and, much to my 
surprise, have yet to have a crash since I changed the EMM386 setup. 
I'll admit that I hardly ever use Windows, though.
For what it's worth, when I first installed 7.02 I did have crashes and 
the "high" thing may have been part of it, but once I realized that 7.02 
defaults to XMS calls to upper memory being *disabled*, while all 
earlier versions had them enabled, I added the XMSUMB parm to the EMM386 
command line. This also allows taskmgr to load up there and MEM now 
reports NWCACHE in upper memory by name and not location.  Anyway, it 
works for me.

Fran.
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