Date: Mon, 30 Nov 1998 09:52:57 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Peter Remmers <pitti AT tfh-berlin DOT de>
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Subject: Re: VDS
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On Sun, 29 Nov 1998, Peter Remmers wrote:

> And what gives? - the DOS-box has no problem with
> allocating a 1 meg buffer, but plain DOS has! (i.e. the memory
> manager to be exact - both QEMM AND EMM386!).
> Error 0x05 (region too large for buffer).

As a last resort before you decide the VDS way is not a solution, I
suggest to post here a short program that tries to allocate such a
buffer and fails on your machine.  Maybe there are ways to solve this
problem, and maybe somebody here will see that way.

Also, please report the versions of DOS, EMM386 and QEMM you were
using in your testing.