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From: "Arkady V.Belousov" <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 22:25:45 +0400 (MSD)
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Subject: Re: HIMEM.SYS and DOS 8
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Hi!

14-σΕΞ-2002 20:23 guti AT bbs-ce DOT uab DOT es (Guti) wrote to <opendos AT delorie DOT com>:

G>     I have applied a patch that allows me to do that.
G>     I think that the patch simply uses the IO.SYS from the EBD.
G>     Now it uses config.sys and autoexec.bat, but while trying to load QEMM
G> 97, it hangs, probably due a conflict with the built-in XMS memory manager.
G> Since I need QEMM in order to run Desqview, it is very important for me to
G> disable that.

1. Don't know about 8.x, but in 7.x disabling of autoload controlled by
DOS=AUTO and DOS=NOAUTO in config.sys.

2. Installed XMS manager shouldn't cause QEMM hanging - QEMM should give
warning/error. Probably, there is conflict between QEMM and MS-DOS 8.x.