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klug@Software.Mitel.COM (Peter Klug) writes:


>>     I have just installed demacs 1.20 and when I run it  I get the following
>>     error message:
>>
>>     CPU must be in real mode (not V*^ mode) to run this program.
>>
>>     Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?
>>
>>     Thanks, Bill C.


>Another problem I found was that there is some sort of conflict with
>the expanded memory manager.  It would take DEMACS well over a minute
>to come up and even then it didn't operate properly.  I poked around
>in CONFIG.SYS until I found that EMM386.EXE was the culprit.  I now
>have the following line in my CONFIG.SYS:

>device=emm386.exe off

>This seems to eliminate the problem.  DEMACS now loads in about 5
>seconds (on a 386, 33MHz) and operates mostly as expected (except for
>setting the mark and binding the keypad keys).  When you require
>expanded memory, you can execute the following from the DOS prompt:

>emm386.exe on 

   The best solution I've found was to use the following line for emm386.exe

   DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\EMM386.EXE 1024 FRAME=E000 ram

   This gives me 1meg of expanded memory for use in games or whatever needs it
   and uses a 64K page frame at segment E000 (normally not used anyway unless
   you include it with 'i=e000-efff').  Whenever you use "noems" on the emm386
   command line it (appears) to put the CPU into protected mode and the dos
   extender used by demacs complains with "real mode" error.
hope this helps
   
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