On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 18:04:05 -0400, L.D. Best wrote:
> Willy,
> You may have seen my message where I finally got InSight running again.
Congrats.
> But thought I'd mention something to you ...
> On Tue, 29 Feb 2000 05:37:49 +0100, W. J. Hoogstraten wrote:
> <snip>
>> BTW: make environment bigger than 1024 bytes if you can effort some
>> conventional memory (eg. shell=C:\command.com C:\ /E:2048 /P ).
>> For me (I love using the environment), 4096 bytes sounds good.
> Memory set aside for environment is taken from above 640K so could
> prevent Loading High something you wanted to put there.
With DR-DOS 7.03, environment is ALWAYS in the 64k bottom of CONVENTIONAL
memory, handles for the files= and fcbs= statements are also located there.
Only the buffers= statement takes HIGH memory (if high memory is accessible).
With MS-DOS 7 (Win95) the environment takes CONVENTIAL memory (above 64k)
when emm386 is not loaded or UPPER memory with emm386 loaded.
I don't know much about MS-DOS 7.x from Win98, except that himem.sys is much
better than in Win95. (I never really tried older MS-DOS versions, since I
prefer DR-DOS which weakest point (not reading FAT32), is the same with e.g.
MS-DOS 6.22).
Best regards,
Willy J. Hoogstraten.
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