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In article <43289@fmsrl7.UUCP> hugh@slee01.srl.ford.com (Hugh Fader) writes:

   I just installed BC++. I tried to compile the windows hello world
   example but it seemed to be taking a very long time so I broke out of
   the compile. Then I remembered a discussion on this group a while back
   about how much faster compiles run in protected mode.

   Here's where I ran into a problem. Borland's instructions for running
   BCX, the protected mode compiler, are to run tkernel, then bcx.
   However, tkernel seems to clash with himem.sys and smartdrive.sys. If
   these are installed, when I try to run bcx I get an error message
   indicating tkernel requires 576K. I think himem.sys is giving all my
   extended memory to smartdrive.sys.

   Can anyone help? Is tkernel required when I have himem.sys?  My
   hardware is Compudyne 16/386SX with 2 MB of memory.

   Thanks in advance.


I'll do the simple case and let others do the more complex ones.  Take
as a given the standard windows setup (himem.sys, smartdrv.sys)  It's
important to have smartdrv.sys not take up all of you memory.  Windows
installed mine with a line something like
smartdrv 320 0
where the 320 was the size outside of windows and 0 was the size
inside windows.  If you make this first number (I may have the order
wrong, watch the boot messages) too large, then bcx can't get any
extended memory and won't run.  Try makeing it small (say 200) and
right after the computer has booted, type BCX.

bruce
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