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mherman@alias.UUCP (Michael Herman) writes:

>Are there any LOADHI-like utilities that will simply work with
>the Windows-supplied memory managers (e.g. himem.sys)?

>I would like to be able to load network software drivers above
>the 640K mark.

IFF you have a 386 or 386SX and depending on what video etc is using
memory space between 640K & 1Mbyte, you CAN use QEMM 5.1 to load some
network drivers etc into hi memory. I do this & it works well.

BUT

1. You must NOT use himem.sys. Win 3 will work in 386 enhanced mode with
   QEMM in place of himem.sys

2. Often only some of the network drivers can be loaded hi & the others
   must be loaded low. For example, with PC-NFS I can only load
   pcnfs.sys hi and the other bits & pieces must be loaded low.
   Fortunately in this case it is pcnfs.sys which uses the majority of
   the space and the rest only about 10Kbytes. In my system I end up
   (about) 574 K usable memory space when everything is up & going.
   Beames & Whiteside NFS gives similar results.

What exactly will work in any given system is a very complicated
business but experimenting with QEMM looks like the best place to start.

Hope this helps.

John Craick
Telecom Research
Melbourne, Oz