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In article <6187@ptsfa.PacBell.COM> jagonch@PacBell.COM (Jim Goncher) writes:
>I have been trying to use DOS5.0's LOADHI to put MIRROR in
>high memory with no success via my autoexec.bat file. The
>command line I am using therein is:
>
>loadhi c:\dos\mirror c: d: e: f: g: /tc /td /te /tf /tg
>
>This command successfully loads mirror below 640K line even
>though there is room for it in high memory as reported by
>MEM /c. A similar command loading DOSKEY in high memory works
>just fine. I have RTFM looking for restrictions on loading
>MIRROR in high memory with nothing found. Am I missing 
>something?
>

I haven't tried, but it is possible that there really isn't enough room to load
it high and initialize. Some programs need more room than their resident space
to initialize. There must be enough high room for the maximum size. For example
I have a V& fastwrite VGA card. They supply a utility "altparm" that is a TSR
that monitors the mode switching on the VGA. It can handle several different
monitors and its purpose is to adjust parameters such as height, width,
centering, etc so that the picture stays in about the right place. It needs 44K
initially because it can handle several different monitors. Once it know what
type of monitor, then it stays resident with only that info loaded, about 6K.
This means that I need a 44K chunk of high memory to get it started. It makes
sens in this case to load it first, before all others. The qemm "loadhi /gs"
command is great for finding out this info.

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