Message-ID: <34C6D9C1.9AFC4B08@worldnet.att.net> Date: Wed, 21 Jan 1998 21:31:45 -0800 From: "D. Karl McReynolds" MIME-Version: 1.0 To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Subject: Re: a few newbie questions Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk Hello, bobbitchin AT hempseed DOT com wrote: > 1> How do I make more dos memory available for programs. The best I have > been able to do was 578k for largest executable, with M$-dos I could get > 615k. MEM shows that I still have 64K UMB's and 32K HMA avalible. Just though I'd throw in my nickel. I found that on my 386DX, 88-90 DTK bios, 4M RAM test machine, the default OD/DR702 emm386/dpms settings would not allow me to load anything into the E000 segment, giving me about 580k. I had to give emm386 the xmsumb parameter (as below). I haven't seen anybody else talk about this, so it might be peculiar to my system. device=c:\opendos\emm386.exe dpmi=off frame=none noems xmsumb device=c:\opendos\dpms.exe With ansi.sys, stacker, mouse, wwg network, history, 40 buffers and 50 files I'm showing 626k. (I don't claim this is great: I'm still playing with it.) Loading netware knocks mem down to 610k. wwg runs as well as it ever has. I haven't seen any info on the emm386 xmsumb setting in the delorie archives or Caldera docs, so if anybody can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. Regards, Walt -- karl DOT mcreynolds AT worldnet DOT att DOT net 75702 DOT 2123 AT compuserve DOT com