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In <1992Aug12.023812.19700@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> bx304@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jeff Epler) writes:
>In a previous article, omar@osf.org () says:
>>  I'm trying to get the Microsoft mouse driver that came with Windows 3.1 to 
>>load in umb's or high memory with DOS5 but loadhigh doesn't seem to want to 
>>put it anywhere but in low mem.  A "mem /c" reveals that it's hogging about
>>17K of low mem and reports that there is a block of almost 30K in UMB.  Why
>>won't EMM386 load it into the umbs?  I've tried everything (except QEMM ;^).

>Your mouse driver stinks.  It needs a bunch of memory (Apparently >30K)
>when it initializees, then it gets rid of all but 17K of it.  I have a
>similar problem -- A tiny keybuffer program won't load high (<1K
>resident, >8K umb space left)...

you might try changing the order in which you load things high.
specifically, make sure enough memory is free for the mouse
driver to initialize when you load it, then load your other
stuff (hopefully not all of the stuff you load high uses more
memory on initialization).
-- 
Todd Greenfield
tgreen@iastate.edu