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Hint for using File Express 5.00 (FE5) under DESQview (DV)
When the long-awaited version FE5 arrived, this user was disappointed to
discover that the fundamentals of memory management had apparently changed
from version 4.32. This caused FE5 to be essentially unusable under DV,
because of an annoyingly uncivilized tendency to reach out and grab ALL the
memory it can. FE5 ignores your instructions respecting the size you have
defined the DV window to be, and also any limits you have set in the DV .DVP
file via "Maximum Program Memory Size" or "Maximum Expanded Memory Size"
parameters. The effect of all this is that once you start FE5, you may have
great difficulty opening and using additional DV windows.
But there's a fix. If you set two environment variables just before starting
FE5, it will confine itself to the defined DV window. I suggest doing this in
a .BAT file started when "Open Window" command opens the FE5 window. This
will not affect environment variables in other DV windows:
SET RTVMEXT=0
SET RTVMEXP=0
FE
Kurt Riegel, 3019 North Oakland Street, Arlington VA 22207, 703-522-5427
ENVIRO bbs 703-524-1837; Electronic mail: riegel_k@seaa.navsea.navy.mil