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- From: widow@camelot.bradley.edu (Shaun Burnett)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
- Subject: Re: UMB=on for Dos crashes System
- Message-ID: <widow.714333824@camelot>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 18:03:44 GMT
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- >I am using a dos-window and am using ftp's pctcp-networksoftware for dos in
- >this dos-box. This works perfectly fine, if I do not set UMB=HIGH. If I do so,
- >the dos-box hangs definitely and I was also able to crash whole os2.
- >Any hints? I'd like to use more memory (and please do not tell me to buy
- >pctcp for os2, I do not want to invest too much until I know definitely.....)
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- Most DOS network software needs to use some UMB. You may
- need to specify the UMB area needed by the network software
- using MEM_EXCLUDE_REGIONS.
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- Shaun Burnett | "You can't survive on a new planet with a
- widow@camelot.bradley.edu | soul full of hope and fresh air you know."
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