Mail Archives: opendos/2002/09/14/15:15:48
I will try the DOS=NOAUTO and tell you what happens.
Maybe is as you say, and a conflict between QEMM and DOS 8. In anycase
it would be very strange since DOS 8 does not have quite improvements
against 7.10.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Arkady V.Belousov" <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 8:25 PM
Subject: Re: HIMEM.SYS and DOS 8
> X-Comment-To: Guti
>
> Hi!
>
> 14-σΕΞ-2002 20:23 guti AT bbs-ce DOT uab DOT es (Guti) wrote to
<opendos AT delorie DOT com>:
>
> G> I have applied a patch that allows me to do that.
> G> I think that the patch simply uses the IO.SYS from the EBD.
> G> Now it uses config.sys and autoexec.bat, but while trying to load
QEMM
> G> 97, it hangs, probably due a conflict with the built-in XMS memory
manager.
> G> Since I need QEMM in order to run Desqview, it is very important for me
to
> G> disable that.
>
> 1. Don't know about 8.x, but in 7.x disabling of autoload controlled by
> DOS=AUTO and DOS=NOAUTO in config.sys.
>
> 2. Installed XMS manager shouldn't cause QEMM hanging - QEMM should give
> warning/error. Probably, there is conflict between QEMM and MS-DOS 8.x.
>
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