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Quarterdeck Technical Note
Subject: Patching QEMM-386 5.10, 5.11, and
5.12 to resolve problems with programs that make
EMS 4.0 calls to move or exchange zero-length
memory regions.
Background: The EMS (Expanded Memory
Specification) 4.0 provides a call (function 24)
which programs can make to move information from
one region of memory to another, or to exchange
information between two regions of memory.
Users of QEMM-386 versions 5.10 through 5.12 may
experience system instability when a program makes
the Function 24 EMS call to move or exchange a
region of memory that is zero bytes in length. The
symptom is likely to be a system crash. There is
no good reason to use Function 24 on a region of
length zero, but such a situation may occur when a
program uses the same subroutine to implement
Function 24 in a variety of different situations.
Users of versions of QEMM-386 after version 5.12
should not experience this problem. In the
meantime, QEMM-386 can be patched to eliminate the
problem.
The following procedure is intended to prevent
system crashes when EMS 4.0 Function 24 is used to
move or exchange zero-length regions of memory
under QEMM-386. This procedure is for use with
QEMM-386 versions:
5.10
5.11
5.12
***************************************************
Do NOT use this patch for QEMM-386 5.0 or
earlier, or on any version of QEMM-386 later than
5.12. If you are in doubt, go to the directory
where the QEMM-386 files are located and check the
date on the QEMM386.SYS file by issuing the DOS
command:
DIR QEMM386.SYS
If the date on the file is
5:10 am
5:11 am
5:12 am
then use the patch in this section. If there is no
QEMM386.SYS file in this directory, or if the date
on the file is later than 5:12 am, then you
probably have an earlier or later version of QEMM-
386, and this patch is not appropriate.
***************************************************
1) Make a copy of the QEMM386.SYS file in your
QEMM directory. We are about to alter your current
copy of QEMM386.SYS; the copy you make will serve
as a backup in case this operation fails.
COPY C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS C:\QEMM\QEMM386.OLD
(If your QEMM386.SYS is not located in the QEMM
directory of the C: drive, change the path
accordingly.)
2) Go to the DOS directory on the hard disk and
type:
DEBUG C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS
(If your QEMM386.SYS is not located in the QEMM
directory of the C: drive, change the path
accordingly.)
Hit the Enter key; you should see the DEBUG
prompt, which is a hyphen.
3) At the DEBUG prompt, type:
S 100 L F000 8B CB 0B DA 74 F0
Hit the Enter key; DEBUG should return a segment
address and an offset:
xxxx:yyyy
4) At the DEBUG prompt again, use the segment
address and offset that was just returned to give
the DEBUG command:
E xxxx:yyyy 8B CB 0B DA 74 22
The address that DEBUG returned in step 3 should
be used in place of the address xxxx:yyyy, which we
use as an example. Hit the Enter key; the DEBUG
prompt should return in a moment.
5) At the DEBUG prompt, type
W
Hit the Enter key; DEBUG will announce that it is
writing a certain number of bytes, then it will
return the DEBUG prompt.
6) At the DEBUG prompt, type
Q
Hit the Enter key to exit DEBUG and return to
DOS.
7) To double-check your patch, type the following
from the DOS prompt in your DOS directory:
COMP C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS C:\QEMM\QEMM386.OLD
(If your QEMM386.SYS is not located in the QEMM
directory of the C: drive, change the path
accordingly.)
Hit the Enter key. COMP should return:
C:QEMM386.SYS and C:QEMM386.OLD
Compare error at OFFSET xxxx
File 1 = 22
File 2 = F0
Eof mark not found
Compare more files (Y/N)?
The value xxxx after OFFSET will vary from
version to version of QEMM 5.1, but the rest of the
message should be the same: it tells us that
there is exactly one byte difference between the
files, and the differing byte is 22 in QEMM386.SYS
and F0 in QEMM386.OLD. If COMP returns the
message:
Files compare ok
...then you probably failed to use DEBUG's W
command to save your change, or you have compared
the wrong files. If COMP returns more than one
compare error, or if the bytes returned by the
compare error don't match those in the above
example, the procedure has failed. In this case,
use the DOS command:
COPY C:\QEMM\QEMM386.OLD C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS
... to restore the original file, and try again.
If the patch was successful, you should now reboot
the system and test the patched version of QEMM-
386.
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If the system fails after you perform this patch,
you can follow the instructions in the
"Installation" section of your QEMM-386 manual to
recover without resorting to a boot floppy. After
your system is booted successfully, copy the backup
of QEMM-386 that you made back to its original
name with the following DOS command:
COPY C:\QEMM\QEMM386.OLD C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS
(If your QEMM386.SYS is not located in the QEMM
directory of the C: drive, change the path
accordingly.)
You may then wish to try the above procedure
again, in case a mistake was made.
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