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In article <CDRFB0CL@math.fu-berlin.de>, shewison@brookes.ac.uk (Simon Hewison) writes:
> In article <199307271001.AA22828@tuna.wang.com>, mike.duffy@OFFICE.WANG.COM ("Mike Duffy") says:
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>>Fellow netters
>>
>>1) Is there anyway to provide EXTended memory to Lotus using EMM386 and have
EXTended (XMS) is provided by himem.sys so you probably mean EXPanded (EMS)
memory. This can be provided by EMM386 or by Windows in enhanced mode. Also, 
if i am correct, the EMM386.EXE provided with DOS 6.0 uses a common memory 
pool for both EMS and XMS, thus providing EMS on demand.

> Lotus 123 r3.x supports VCPI, which means that it can access memory provided
> by Windows.. IF it's run from within windows.
Windows provides (in enhanced mode at least) DPMI memory and not VCPI.

> If you want to run Lotus 123 r3.x from OUTSIDE of windows, you're going to have
> to configure some EMS, by either giving a parameter to EMM386 (this then
> stops that amount from working as XMS for windows), or by using a better
> memory manager such as QEMM386.
Check out DOS 6 but DON'T take DoubleSpace in use!

> QEMM allows both XMS and EMS access to the same areas of memory, and
> provides the amount you need on demand. It also does some very clever things
> with the upper memory area between 640k and 1Mb.
Cleaver things that cleaver people can do with EMM386 I-switches as well!
> 
> In terms of money, you can either splash out on buying QEMM, or you could
> upgrade to Lotus 123 for windows, or just put up with having to run lotus from
> within windows. 
Upgrading to a newer version seems like the best idea to me.

Sten
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