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- From: swesterback@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi
- Subject: Re: XMS - Driver question
- Message-ID: <1992Sep1.182018.1@tnclus.tele.nokia.fi>
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- References: <1992Aug20.084030.29159@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de> <1992Aug24.170543.12017@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Date: Tue, 1 Sep 1992 16:20:18 GMT
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- ul1f@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de (H. Dobler) writes:
-
- >Hi everybody,
-
- >i've a question about the XMS-Driver himem.sys, which is included
- >in MS-DOS. I've a 386-PC and 8 MB RAM. Now, i want to use XMS
- >and Extended Memory. Is it possible to say HIMEM, that it should
- >only use 4MB for the XMS-Memory ? Or is there another XMS-Driver
- >outside, which includes this feature ?
-
- If you have DOS 5.0 (or even better, Windows 3.1) the himem.sys driver
- has a switch called /int15 which allows you to specify how much extended
- memory you need. This memory is used trough the INT15h interface by a
- few old programs. The rest of the extended memory is then used by XMS.
-
- On the other hand, if you did mean EMS memory (expanded) the ems386.sys
- or emm386.exe driver has a parameter that specifies the amount of EMS
- needed.
-
- Personally i dont need EMS-memory in DOS and if i needed it i would let
- Windows emulate it and run the program in a DOS window!
-
- I hope this will help you!
-
- Sten
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