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Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 21:38:43 -0700
From: Nate Eldredge <nate AT cartsys DOT com>
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To: Igor Gnip <gnipi AT FALSE DOT NOSPAM DOT EUnet DOT yu>
CC: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: Virtual memory exhausted ?  (600MB Free space)
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Igor Gnip wrote:
> 
> Hello to everybody. I have just started using djgpp.
> 
> Trying to compile allegro 3.0  (actualy palantir, multitasking kernel for
> allegro)
> 
> when I start make.exe  (using "make -f makefile.dz") i get "virtual memory
> exhausted"
> 
> I know that 16MB ram is not much, but I have 600MB of hard disk space, and
> I am positive that my TEMP, GO32TMP and any other needed environment
> setting is
> properly mapped to C:\TEMP,  so I wonder why it does't work.
> 
> some informatio about software and hardware:
> 
>         - AMD 486DX4/120
>         - 16 MB RAM
>         - 600MB free space on drive C:    (environment variable set to C:\TEMP)
>         - Windows 95  (Windows manages virtual memory usage, no limit on swapfile
> size)
> 
> my question is:   Is there some limit (with W95) to available DPMI memory ?
> 
> (can I allocate 40MB of memory under win95 dos box ?,   under CWSDPMI ???)
> 
> P.S.  I prefer DOS, but it doesn't support long file names :(((

In "DOS Box Properties" (or some such, I don't use Win95), you have to
manually set DPMI memory to 65535. "Auto" will limit it to 16MB, which
is frequently not enough.

Nate Eldredge
nate AT cartsys DOT com