Re: Windows WIN386

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From: Mark Cosham
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 09:03

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In <1765@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk> walters@prlhp1.prl.philips.co.uk (Paul Walters) writes:


>Why does WIN386 take up 35KB when you initially run Windows, and about 7K once
>you have exited and run Windows up again? VTSR, MAPMEM and MEM/C all report
>this program doing this. I suppose WIN386 is the resident part of Windows in
>a virtual DOS session.

>One of our users is having this problem, and one of his DOS applications needs
>the memory, so he starts windows, closes it, and restarts it, every time he
>starts his machine.

>He is using:

>DOS 5.0
>Novell drivers NETX 3.26 IPX 3.10 on a 3.11 fileserver
>Clarkson packet driver NI5210.COM v. 10.2.2 and WINPKT.COM
>EMM386 is running with ems enabled.
>DOS loaded high
>Using Windows 3.1

>Any reasons why / fixes ?

>Replies pref. by email please.

Just as a clarification.  Win386 is the program that windows runs when
running in 386 Enhanced mode.

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Subject: Re: Windows WIN386
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