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- ID:EX Installing Microsoft EXCEL 2.1
- Quarterdeck Technical Note
- by Stan Young
-
-
- QEMM 4.2 is compatible with EXCEL 2.1. However if QEMM.SYS is
- loaded in your CONFIG.SYS file, EXCEL will always report that the
- driver is incompatible. This is because the EXCEL installation
- program scans the CONFIG.SYS file and if QEMM.SYS is seen, it
- assumes the driver is incompatible. It makes no test of the
- driver.
-
- You can install the driver in the following way:
-
- Rename the QEMM.SYS file on your hard drive to QEMX.SYS and
- modify your CONFIG.SYS file to specify:
-
- DEVICE=QEMX.SYS EXT=64
-
- QEMM will boot up fine under the new name. Then simply install
- EXCEL. EXCEL will place a driver called HIMEM.SYS in your
- CONFIG.SYS file. If it places the driver after QEMX.SYS, all is
- well. If the driver is placed before QEMX.SYS, you will need to
- modify the CONFIG.SYS file so that QEMX.SYS is loaded first.
-
- Since you rename the QEMM.SYS driver, EXCEL will not complain
- about its presence in the CONFIG.SYS. EXCEL will be able to work
- fine and will use the expanded memory provided by the driver.
-
- Once EXCEL is installed, you can rename the QEMX.SYS driver back
- to QEMM.SYS and change the CONFIG.SYS file to reflect the
- original name if you desire, since EXCEL makes not further tests
- of the system and will be able to use the memory regardless of
- the name of the driver. However, you might want to skip this
- step, since the driver will work fine under any name and renaming
- the file to QEMM.SYS would cause EXCEL to complain again if you
- have occasion to run the EXCEL install program again.
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