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In article <5044@bwdls58.UUCP> mlord@bwdls58.bnr.ca (Mark Lord) writes:
>My environment is about 400 bytes.  But a copy is made for EACH
>of the 17 TSRs I have, giving a total space of 17 * 400 = about 6K or so.

My AUTOEXEC.BAT starts like this:

path c:\;

mouse.com
ansi.com
prtscr y
(other TSR's)

path f:\;c:\;{etc. - 100 chars or so}
set temp=f:
set pktmp=f:
set lib=d:\qc25\lib
(other environment stuff)

(copying files to ramdrive, etc.)

That way, at the time each of the TSR's is loaded, the environment is only
64 bytes long.  After adding the full path and environment variables, the
environment is several hundred bytes long.  But the TSR's don't need copies
of most of it, so I don't give it to them.  This way, your memory wastage
would be

(17*64) = 1088 bytes

instead of (17*400) = 6800 bytes.

Actually, I have a 386, so I use QEMM and LOADHI to get 602 KB free with 
a ramdisk, disk cache, mouse driver, ANSI driver, files=40, buffers=10.
If you have a 386, QEMM is DEFINITELY the way to go.  And it works with 
Windows 3.0 in all modes now.

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