Re: WIN.INI Switches for Windows 286 and 386

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From: Brent Southard
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 1990 14:04

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In article <16199@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> abukarb@prism.CS.ORST.EDU (Bassam A. Abu-Karroum) writes:
>...to precede the address with a zero. Yes, a zero on the left side. This is
>the only WIN.INI switch that REQUIRES the zero. A sample line would be:
>
>	emmpageframe=0D000
>
>Without the leading zero, the above statement is useless.
>Please note that all entries for the WIN.INI need to be in lower case.

While the bit about the leading zero is correct, the statement regarding
lowercase is wrong.  I routinely use the following statement:

	EMMPageFrame=0E000

By the way, this is the exact case in which Microsoft documents the switch.

Brent
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Subject: Re: WIN.INI Switches for Windows 286 and 386
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