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Article #351Re: XMS - Driver question
From: swesterback
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 16:20
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 1992 16:20
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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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