To: DJGPP List Subject: memory constrained Reply-To: pgf AT Cayman DOT COM Date: Fri, 28 Jan 94 15:32:04 EST From: Paul Fox hi -- i have a lot of trouble running the compiler on my HP OmniBook, with 4 meg of memory. unless i'm careful what drivers i load up, i get "Error: not enough memory to run go32!" or something similar to that. now, this little baby runs DOS5.0, and normally himem.sys, so that's the XMS driver. after i get the memory error from go32, if i run go32, it reports XMS memory available as -4Kb. before i get the memory error, the same command shows 2952 Kb free. in both cases there's loads of swap, of course. if i take out himem.sys, i can build just fine, though my ramdisk no longer loads, since it wants XMS memory. anyone have any ideas? i'm pretty new DOS memory juggling, so i could well be overlooking the obvious -- so don't hesitate to point it out! paul --------------------- paul fox, pgf AT cayman DOT com (cayman systems inc. cambr^H^H^H^H^Hwoburn, ma) home: pgf AT foxharp DOT boston DOT ma DOT us (arlington, ma)