From: "John M. Aldrich" <fighteer AT cs DOT com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: memory problems with djgpp+win95
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 1997 21:36:06 -0800
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fayda wrote:
> 
> I am running windows95 with 12megs of memory. I have a rather large .c file
> that I would like to compile, but when I attempt it all I get is "Virtual
> memory exhausted." I tried doing the same thing in DOS and it compiled
> fine. Is their any way I can give more memory to my dos box while in
> Windows95? Or should I just buy more ram? :)

Go to the Win95 control panel and edit the DOS box properties.  Change
the maximum DPMI memory allocated for DOS to 16 MB and you should
compile fine.  Hint:  you can actually change it to as much as 64 MB by
manually editing the value.

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