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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
- Subject: Re: Stacker 3: Can the driver be loaded high?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.192438.23139@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: 27 Jan 93 19:24:38 GMT
- References: <1993Jan26.012320.89827@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
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- In <1993Jan26.012320.89827@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG) writes:
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- >I'm thinking about getting Stacker 3, but I'm worried about the driver for
- >this program being too big in memory. I've heard that it is over 40K in size.
- >I know it can use EMS to shrink itself down, but Stacker users say that EMS
- >can cause problems.
-
- >So, can I load the driver high with MS-dos 5? I have tons of UMB space. Thanks!
-
- Yes, you can load the whole works high, but you're going to need
- whacking great amounts of contiguous space up high. I use QEMM 6.03
- for my memory manager, and unless I use Stealth I do not have a large
- enough contiguous block to put it in.
-
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