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In article <670027@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM>, stevek@hpfcmgw.FC.HP.COM (Steve Kauder) writes:
> In comp.sys.ibm.pc, ba05011@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu (John F. Holtz) writes:
> 
>>   I have the following config.sys file
> 
>>   DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
>>   DOS=HIGH
>>   DEVICEHIGH = C:\NORTON\NAV\NAV_.SYS /W  -- norton ant virus 2.0
>>   DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\MOUSE.SYS             -- mouse
>>   DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\SETVER.EXE            -- was there when i got machine
>>   DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\ANSI.SYS              -- 
>>   DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\MATHCO\FRANKE.387     -- currently shareware verison
>>   DEVICEHIGH=C:\DOS\smartdrv.sys 200      -- Don't make a differnce on size
>>   FILES=30                                --
>>
> 
> You will find that you don't have enough memory free above 640K to
> put all that stuff -- so some of it (a lot of it) is loaded low in
> spite of the DEVICEHIGH command.
> 
> My solution?  I got QEMM from Quarterdeck.  It provides the same
> functionality as HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE -- and it does it with
> less space.  This will let you load (perhaps) another 60K high.

Don't you also need to load EMM386.EXE?  Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I
thought that to use the DEVICEHIGH feature you needed to have a memory manager
like EMM386 or QEMM loaded too.

Ken
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