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joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott) writes:

>>Could someone please tell me if I can allocate some memory to EMS
>>(not all) and still have UMB's?

>>CONFIG.SYS contains : DEVICEHIGH=EMM386  noems i=E000-EFFF

>>What should I change the noems to?

>Make sure you have the line : DOS=HIGH,UMB  in your config.sys.  Then you can
>take out the  noems i=e000-efff  parameter.  Replace it with the amount of
>ems you need, e.g. :

>device=himem.sys
>device=emm386.exe 4096
>dos=high,umb
>...

>..will load DOS in the HMA, will make 4096K (4mb) available as ems, and will
>give you access to UMBs for devicehigh and loadhigh statements.

NO!  This will take away your UMB access because this tells EMM386 to
only provide EMS.  You need this command line:

device=emm386.exe 4096 ram i=e000-efff

Essentially this is the same as the original command line, only changing
"noems" to "ram", and giving the desired size of EMS.

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