From: ak333@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Martin Linsenbigler)
Subject: Re: EMM386.EXE and Windows and Dos6
Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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Reply-To: ak333@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Martin Linsenbigler)
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In a previous article, rudim@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Rudi Maelbrancke) says:

>In Windows I created a permanent Swap-file of 7771Kb as win3.1
>recommended me to do that (32bit access).
>If I use EMM386.EXE, after win3.1 startup I have 6689K of memory
>free, if I leave EMM386.EXE out of my config.sys I have 9935K
>of memory free, and windows recommends me a swap file of 11769K.
>

I think you need the EMM386.EXE noems
This will let the expanded mem be active but not use any, therefore
this will give you more extended mem for windows yet have all the
bases covered.


>I use DOS6, with memmaker, have 4MB of internal Memory and a 486DX,
>

I do not use dos6 so I am not familiar with this.

>Does anybody knows why this is happening (possibly win needs
>some UMB's to manage virtual memory?, If true, which UMB's, those
>that EMM386 can find without including suspicious parts?)
>
>I need an optimized DOS-environment, because i develop applications for
>DOS using a windows programming environment.
>
>
>Rudi
>
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