From: Guido Gonzato <guido DOT g AT iol DOT it>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Why can't I get EMS in OpenDOS?
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 1997 13:30:37 +0100
Organization: Italia Online
Lines: 69
Message-ID: <330C43ED.233E3A34@iol.it>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 194.20.30.198
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp

Hi there,

I'm having a strange problem with OpenDOS. I need expanded memory
to run a program (the msx2 emulator). After reading dosbook,
I mended my config.sys thus:


rem  CONFIG.SYS
rem
rem  For OpenDOS 7.01, multitasking disabled
rem  DJGPP suite program will work but won't multitask.
rem
DEVICE=C:\OPENDOS\EMM386.EXE MULTITASKING=OFF FRAME=E000
DEVICE=C:\OPENDOS\DPMS.EXE
DEVICE=C:\OPENDOS\SETVER.EXE
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:512 /P
BREAK=OFF
BUFFERS=15
FILES=20
FCBS=4,4
LASTDRIVE=E
HISTORY=ON,512,ON
COUNTRY=1,,C:\OPENDOS\COUNTRY.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICEHIGH=C:\DEV\ATAPI_CD.SYS /D:NWCD000


Shouldn't this make EMS available? However, if I type mem this is what I
get:

Ú Memory Type --------- Total Bytes ( Kbytes  ) ------ Available For
Programs Ä¿
³                   ³                           
³                            ³
³ Conventional      ³       655,360 (    640K )  ³       628,560 (   
614K )  ³
³ Upper             ³        98,304 (     96K )  ³         5,376 (     
5K )  ³
³ High              ³        65,520 (     64K )  ³         2,163 (     
2K )  ³
³ Extended          ³    32,505,856 ( 31,744K )  ³             0 (     
0K )  ³
³ Extended via XMS  ³          --------          ³    30,838,784 (
30,116K )  ³
³ EMS               ³    30,818,304 ( 30,096K )  ³             0 (     
0K )  ³ < ---- !!!
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
³ Largest executable program:  628,544 ( 614K
)                               ³
³ Total Free DOS memory:       633,936 ( 619K
)                               ³
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------

What error di I make?

If someone emailed me his/her config.sys with EMS support, I'd really
appreciate it.

Thank you in advance,
		Guido  =8-)




--------------------------------------------------------------------------
Guido Gonzato              | Dipartimento di Fisica, Settore di
Geofisica,
<guido AT ibogfs DOT df DOT unibo DOT it> | Universita' di Bologna.
                           | Tel. +39-51-6305001; Fax +39-51-6305058