From: DH473 AT AOL DOT COM Message-ID: <18e31ff5.2494200f@aol.com> Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 16:41:51 EDT Subject: Re: DRDOS 7.03 loading XMS-driver now wastes memory To: opendos AT delorie DOT com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 3.0.i for Windows sub 83 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Charles Dye wrote: >>Sometimes I use to run the HIMEM.SYS from PC-DOS7 as XMS-driver. >>It consumes only about 750 Byte of my precious DOS memory. >>Now with DRDOS 7.03 it occupies 32 KB more when loading! >I've replicated your problem under 7.03. Something screwy going on -- >HIMEM.SYS does not resize its memory block correctly. Same thing with >HIMEM.SYS from MS-DOS 5.0. ,MS-DOS 6.2, MS-DOS 6.22 :-) Obviously memory managing/driver selfresizing is the problem. See other mail about subject too. >Whatever it is, it's recent. I do not have all versions of (DR-)DOS 7.02. So I could not verify when it was introduced. >>Any ideas? >Simple. Use the HIMEM.SYS that came with DR-DOS :-) >No, it won't provide upper memory blocks on your machine, but then, >neither would the IBM driver. No. Stay with 7.02 + HIMEM.SYS (PC DOS 7) :-)) Regards, Utz