Hi to all
Why am I telling all of this?
Simply because I feel the HELP is not answering simple questions.
And if a newbee tries Arachne he/she will fail and loose interest.
So this time I document all the troubles... and see I learn too.
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 10:39:37 +0100 (CET), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Menedetter) wrote:
> Hi Bastiaan!
> 29 Nov 2002, "Bastiaan Edelman, PA3FFZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> BF> I checked with C:\ mem and nothing was loaded in upper memory.
> BF> himem.sys and emm386.exe were not there, they are not in Win95.
> they are ... they are by default in c:\windows
Indeed they are
> BF> So I added those two memory managers, copied them from an other
> BF> machine, into C:\windows\command and restarted the computer.
> you should use the win himem/emm because they have some bugfixes.
I did... used the same as are in \WINDOWS
> BF> NOT ENOUGH MEMORY !
> BF> They have to be activated with config.sys when booting.
> BF> So at the start of config.sys I added the following two lines:
> BF> DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\himem.sys
> use /testmem:off /numhandles=64
Would you please explain what thes commands mean and/or do
> BF> DEVICE=C:\WINDOWS\COMMAND\emm386.exe RAM
> do you need EMS ??
I don't know..
> i guess not, so change RAM to NOEMS
> try also to add i=b000-b7ff
Would you please explane what this means and/or do
> BF> **************** the DOS command mem/c gives full details about memory
> BF> but the report takes over one screen. To see all of it: write it to a
> BF> file... mem/c > mem-c.txt
> no need mem /c /p /a
> /p -> pagewise
> /a -> show how much HMA is free (than you can adjust buffers so that they fill
> the HMA for example)
I will remember this
> BF> Naam Totaal Conventioneel Upper Memory
> BF> -------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
> BF> SYSTEM 33.616 (33K) 9.664 (9K) 23.952 (23K)
> have you DOS=HIGH ??
Yes, and also in config.sys DOS=UMB
> My "system" uses only 19 K instead of 33
> BF> OAKCDROM 36.064 (35K) 36.064 (35K) 0 (0K)
> use another cdrom driver, they all work the same, and this one uses VERY much
> memory.
First I had another cdrom driver but something was wrong with it
I am just glad the CD-ROM player is working now
In future I will only load it when needed... and will look for a non
corrupt smaller driver.
> BF> Bastiaan
Thanks for comments and lessons
> CU, Ricsi
> PS: the arachne.exe only starts with MZ, because arachne automatically gunzips
> it !!
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All .exe programs for DOS ought to start with MZ, as eg. .gif starts with
GIF
Why should Arachne gunzips ara171ue.exe if this file is a real .exe with
the correct size at the source (Glenn) and arrives at the destination
with the correct size and uncorrupted at the destination (eg. me)?
First question: where got it gzipped between source and destination?
Second question: why should it be gzipped?
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CU, Bastiaan
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