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- ID:EX Microsoft EXCEL 2.1 in DESQview
- Quarterdeck Technical Note
- by Stan Young
-
-
- QEMM-386 is compatible with EXCEL 2.1. However, if QEMM is loaded
- in your CONFIG.SYS file, EXCEL will always report that the QEMM
- driver and itself are incompatible. This is because the EXCEL
- installation program, which seems to use code from the Microsoft
- Windows/386 installation, scans the CONFIG.SYS file, finds QEMM,
- and assumes incompatibility. It makes no test of the driver.
-
- You can install EXCEL 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 5.10 and later installs a driver called QEMM386.SYS, not
- QEMM.SYS. If EXCEL 2.1 has the same negative reaction to
- QEMM386.SYS that it does to QEMM.SYS, the rename to QEMX.SYS
- should work for the recent QEMM's as well as the earlier ones.)
-
- 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. HIMEM.SYS should not be loaded with QEMM 5.00
- and later, which performs the same functions as HIMEM; delete the
- HIMEM line from your CONFIG.SYS in this case. QEMM 4.23 can
- coexist with HIMEM.SYS; it may be necessary to put the EXTMEM=64
- parameter on the QEMM line in CONFIG.SYS, and possibly to play
- with the order of the HIMEM.SYS and QEMM.SYS drivers.
-
- After you rename the QEMM.SYS driver, EXCEL will not complain
- about its presence in the CONFIG.SYS. EXCEL will be able to
- function 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, as EXCEL makes no 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:
- the driver will work fine under any name, and renaming the file
- to QEMM.SYS will cause the same problem if you have occasion to
- run the EXCEL install program again.
-
- Copyright (C) 1991 by Quarterdeck Office Systems
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