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Re: c++ and Memory Manager

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From: J. Chris Clark
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1992 15:45
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In article <17292@mindlink.bc.ca>, John_Morgan@mindlink.bc.ca (John Morgan) writes...
>I seem to have a problem running C++ 3.00.  It says that the memory manager
>won't initialize.  Is there a way of fixing this?  If so how?
>I am using EMM386.COM that came with DOS 5.0 with a few TSRs running in high
>memory.  If someone could help that would be great.

If this is Borland C++ that you're reffering to, the only time I've seen this
message is when there wasn't enough  Extended memory left.  Specifically, I
was running Smartdrv and had it using more than 50% of the Extended memory
on the system.  As soon as I dropped Smartdrv back to less than 50%, I was
fine.
So, I would suggest that you check whether you are using Expanded or
Extended memory and then make sure you have lots of extended free.  With 
EMM386.exe that comes with DOS 5.0, you can use the "noems" command line if
you want to use the UMB's but leave all of your extended memory as extended
memory.  (Note: if you only have 2 Meg, you're better off not using EMM386
as it will only give you about 100K or so in the UMB's, but I've noticed it
takes up about 150-200 K of your extended!)

Hope this helps some,
Chris C.
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