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Article #3267Re: Stacker 3: Can the driver be loaded high?
From: fred j mccall 575-3539
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:24
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 19:24
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In <1993Jan26.012320.89827@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> ry01@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (ROBERT YUNG) writes: >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. Thanks! 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. -- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Fred.McCall@dseg.ti.com - I don't speak for others and they don't speak for me.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!crdgw1!rpi!gatech!udel!bogus.sura.net!howland.reston.ans.net!usc!cs.utexas.edu!csc.ti.com!tilde.csc.ti.com!mksol!mccall From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539) Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps Subject: Re: Stacker 3: Can the driver be loaded high? Message-ID: <1993Jan27.192438.23139@mksol.dseg.ti.com> Date: 27 Jan 93 19:24:38 GMT References: <1993Jan26.012320.89827@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu> Organization: Texas Instruments Inc Lines: 19