Message-ID: <000f01c25c23$208f53f0$53af1950@k71400> From: "Guti" To: References: <000c01c25c05$eae9add0$53af1950 AT k71400> <2 DOT 7 DOT 9 DOT YF5T DOT H2FRBK AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su> <000901c25c1b$d1943a60$53af1950 AT k71400> <2 DOT 7 DOT 9 DOT 6TV6 DOT H2FXUX AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su> Subject: Re: HIMEM.SYS and DOS 8 Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 21:15:45 +0200 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com I will try the DOS=NOAUTO and tell you what happens. Maybe is as you say, and a conflict between QEMM and DOS 8. In anycase it would be very strange since DOS 8 does not have quite improvements against 7.10. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Arkady V.Belousov" To: Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 8:25 PM Subject: Re: HIMEM.SYS and DOS 8 > X-Comment-To: Guti > > Hi! > > 14-σΕΞ-2002 20:23 guti AT bbs-ce DOT uab DOT es (Guti) wrote to : > > 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. >