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From: "Guti" <guti AT bbs-ce DOT uab DOT es>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
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Subject: Re: HIMEM.SYS and DOS 8
Date: Sat, 14 Sep 2002 23:45:52 +0200
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    No success, seems that the built-in XMS manager is incompatible with V86
mode, as QEMM 9 fails to load, also fails to load EMM386.
    Seems that I will need to install DOS 7.1 from Win98, and forget ME...


----- Original Message -----
From: "Guti" <guti AT bbs-ce DOT uab DOT es>
To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
Sent: Saturday, September 14, 2002 9:15 PM
Subject: Re: HIMEM.SYS and DOS 8


>     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" <ark AT belous DOT munic DOT msk DOT su>
> To: <opendos AT delorie DOT com>
> 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
> <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.
> >
>
>