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Re: Stacker 3: Can the driver be loaded high?

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From: Gregory Youngblood
Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1993 02:07
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mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) writes:

> In <1993Jan26.012320.89827@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT 
> 
> >I'm thinking about getting Stacker 3, but I'm worried about the driver for
> >this program being too big in memory. I've heard that it is over 40K in size
> >I know it can use EMS to shrink itself down, but Stacker users say that EMS
> >can cause problems.
> 
> >So, can I load the driver high with MS-dos 5? I have tons of UMB space. Than
> 
> Yes, you can load the whole works high, but you're going to need
> whacking great amounts of contiguous space up high.  I use QEMM 6.03
> for my memory manager, and unless I use Stealth I do not have a large
> enough contiguous block to put it in.
> 
I called Quarterdeck today and they told me that 6.02 was the latest...where
did you get 6.03.

Greg

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From: tcscs!zeta@src.honeywell.com (Gregory Youngblood)
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Subject: Re: Stacker 3: Can the driver be loaded high?
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Date: Wed, 27 Jan 93 20:07:22 CST
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