Date: Sun, 21 Dec 1997 13:29:37 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: GAMMELJL AT SLU DOT EDU
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Gammel's config.sys
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On Thu, 18 Dec 1997 GAMMELJL AT SLU DOT EDU wrote:

> DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS D=64

Please try without the NOEMS parameter and see whether go32-v2 still
reports 128MB.  If it does not, try loading HIMEM alone (without
EMM386) and see if that lets you use 128MB.

The reason I'm suggesting this is that working under EMM386 has fewer
problems than under HIMEM or without any memory manager, and AFAIK
EMM386 from DOS 7 does allow to use more than 64MB of memory.  If
EMM386 limits you to a lower amount, but HIMEM alone doesn't, you
should use HIMEM, because that will allow you to install the SmartDrv
disk cache, without which your compilation speed will suck.  See
section 3.9 and chapter 7 of the DJGPP FAQ list for details.