From: Mike Gee <mikegee AT creator DOT dp DOT ua>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: "Out of environment space" in DOS mode
Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 06:25:15 +0200
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On Sun, 13 Feb 2000 05:36:08 +0600 (LKT), Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel
<kalum AT newmail DOT net> wrote:

>Actually this new "feature" of sindows98 autoloading himem.sys ifshelp.sys
>etc proved to be another *&#@ing annoyance when I had to free up about
>600K of free base memory to run a old dos game. I was unable to because
>although my config.sys didn't have any reference, sin98 was "autoloading"
>ifshelp, dblbuffer.sys (which is not required, I don't know what made M$
>think dblbuffer is needed on my UDMA/IDE drive) etc..

This feature has been around since W95 and can be turned off quite
easily. Just say in config.sys

DOS=NOAUTO

and then you can configure as you need. Look up readmes in %windir%
for more info. 

Best regards
Mike