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From:	Charles Dye <raster AT highfiber DOT com>
Subject:	Re: DRDOS 7.03 loading XMS-driver now wastes memory
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At 05:36 PM 6/2/99 EDT, DH473 AT AOL DOT COM wrote:

>Sometimes I use to run the HIMEM.SYS from PC-DOS7 as XMS-driver. 
>It consumes only about 750 Byte of my precious DOS memory. 
>It runs stable all the time. 
>Now with DRDOS 7.03 it occupies 32 KB more when loading! 
>So the advantage to hold both the BIOS kernel code and the COMMAND.COM 
>in the HMA would be lost. :-(

I've replicated your problem under 7.03.  Something screwy going on --
HIMEM.SYS does not resize its memory block correctly.  Same thing with
HIMEM.SYS from MS-DOS 5.0.  But an old Logitech MOUSE.SYS *does* resize
correctly -- I don't understand.

Whatever it is, it's recent.  MS/IBM HIMEM.SYS work fine under DR-DOS
7.02.  You could try reporting the problem to dos DOT support AT caldera DOT com,
but I get the impression they're not really interested in fixing bugs
at this point.

>Any ideas?

Simple.  Use the HIMEM.SYS that came with DR-DOS  :-)

No, it won't provide upper memory blocks on your machine, but then,
neither would the IBM driver.

raster AT highfiber DOT com

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