From: Hans-Bernhard Broeker <broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: ?memory problems...
Date: 10 Mar 2003 11:43:42 GMT
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mizerac2 AT etu DOT unige DOT ch wrote:

> available up to levels higher than seen below (but never the DMPMI swap space
> above 0)-- always get load error: no dpmi memory available..

Your description is quite confusing.  It should be essentially
impossible to end up with not DPMI if you're running from actual ME
(not from a boot floppy).

> my autoexec.bat file:

> SET COMSPEC=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND.COM
> SET windir=C:\WINDOWS
> SET winbootdir=C:\WINDOWS
> SET PROMPT=$p$g
> SET TEMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
> SET TMP=C:\WINDOWS\TEMP
> SET CLASSPATH=C:\PROGRA~1\PHOTOD~1.0\ADOBEC~1
> SET PATH=C:\WINDOWS;C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND;D:\Borland\Bin;C:\DJGPP\bin;
> SET DJGPP=C:\DJGPP\DJGPP.ENV
> SET LOADHIGH=c:\dos\smartdrv.exe c+ d+ f+ 8192

Where on earth did you pick up this autoexec.bat setup?  It's broken
on several counts:

1) that last line should be loadhigh c:\dos\smartdrv, not set loadhigh=...
2) *Never* put any other compiler's directory in front of DJGPP\bin
   on your path.  It will not work.  You have Borland there.
3) 'set winbootdir' and 'set windir' are utterly useless in an autoexec.bat
   -- their effects, if any, can only be harmful.

> my config.sys file

... is that of an emergency boot floppy or installation boot
floppy. It lacks some crucially important things, most prominently the
device= lines for EMM386.EXE and HIMEM.SYS...

You really will have to read README.1st carefully, and proceed from
there.  Odds are you'll need a setdjgpp.bat and a customized desktop
link to command.com to operate DJGPP inside the windowing system.  If
you're trying to run in raw DOS (from a floppy, since you're on ME),
things will be different.
-- 
Hans-Bernhard Broeker (broeker AT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de)
Even if all the snow were burnt, ashes would remain.