Date: Sun, 2 Jul 1995 14:24:19 +0300
From: eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il (Eli Zaretskii)
To: hoffrich AT uran DOT informatik DOT uni-bonn DOT de
Subject: Re: GO32 XMS vs. EMS usage
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu

> The real problem therefore seems to be the following: How can I convince GO32
> to use XMS memory and to ignore any present EMS memory? The latter will be

I don't think you can.  When GO32 starts up, its logic works in such a way
that if it sees any EMS at all it will try to use VCPI mode, and fail if
there isn't enough VCPI (i.e., EMS) memory.  To work around this, you will
have to install a memory manager in a mode that it can allocate both XMS and
EMS memory from the same pool (EMM386 from DOS 6.x can do it, as most other
3rd party memory managers).