Following up on what I said before, I tried changing UMB stuff back and
forth and no change in available memory for loading stuff high. But
since I only have half a million other things to do which I don't want
to do, I experimented some more with QEMM. Starting the parameters line
with NOEMS resulted in some *wild* changes!
First, I was told I couldn't use Stealth:M because there was no page
frame. I was afraid I'd lose even more memory as a result. But I was
wrong. Suddenly, instead of 44K largest available block in upper for
loading high, I had a largest available block of 108K. No problem
finding space to load epppd.exe high now.
BUT ... [hanging my head in shame] I can't find any of the messages
about how that's done. I found one that said something about a batch
file being run before Arachne, but no details on how to setup .cfg file
so it would be using "already exists" PPP packet.
So ... Does anyone have the patience to tell me step by step? If not,
you have permission to yell at me for bothering you ... IF you don't go
on and on for too long.
l.d.
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On Mon, 10 Jan 2000 17:09:13 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> Clarence,
> I've seen mention of dropping the page frame, and wondered about why UBM
> should be selected when NOUMB is the default.
> But when I go to Manifest it clearly shows that the page frame 64K is
> placed *above* the 1Mb portion of memory. So getting rid of the page
> frame wouldn't make any addition memory available for loading EPPPD
> high.
> l.d.
> ====
> On Sun, 09 Jan 2000 20:24:26 -0800, Clarence Verge wrote:
>> Glenn McCorkle wrote:
>>> (Test #5)
>>> ---Qemm config.sys---
>>> rem OPENDOS 7.01
>>> DEVICE=C:\QEMM\QEMM386.SYS RAM SH:N ARAM=CB80-CBFF R:1 ST:M
>>> S=FF00-FFFF UR=1M:80M
>>> (QEMM386.SYS line split for eMail format)
>>> device=c:\qemm\dos-up.sys @c:\qemm\dos-up.dat
>>> DOS=HIGH,UMB
>>> ---------------------
>>> Memory Type Total Bytes ( Kbytes ) Available For Programs
>>> Conventional 655,360 ( 640K ) 644,032 ( 629K )
>>> Upper 307,040 ( 300K ) 190,272 ( 186K )
>>> High 65,520 ( 64K ) 16,396 ( 16K )
>>> Extended 66,060,288 ( 64,512K ) 0 ( 0K )
>>> EMS 83,017,728 ( 81,072K ) 82,313,216 ( 80,384K )
>>> Largest executable program: 644,016 ( 629K )
>>> Total Free DOS memory: 834,304 ( 815K )
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> You may draw your own conclusions from these tests.
>>> I'll keep using QEMM.
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> You betchur bippy. Me too !
>> And you get another 64k if you dump the EMS page frame.<g>
>> - Clarence Verge
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