From:	DH473 AT AOL DOT COM
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Date:	Sat, 12 Jun 1999 16:41:51 EDT
Subject:	Re: DRDOS 7.03 loading XMS-driver now wastes memory
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Charles Dye 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. 
>>Now with DRDOS 7.03 it occupies 32 KB more when loading! 

>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.

,MS-DOS 6.2, MS-DOS 6.22 :-)

Obviously memory managing/driver selfresizing is the problem. 
See other mail about subject too.

>Whatever it is, it's recent.  

I do not have all versions of (DR-)DOS 7.02. 
So I could not verify when it was introduced.

>>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.

No. Stay with 7.02 + HIMEM.SYS (PC DOS 7)   :-))

Regards,
Utz
<dh473 AT aol DOT com>

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