Hi! > - FreeDOS (NO mouse, NO cdrom, etc...) > - MS Client to map network drive (memory hog!). > - to have at least 500+ KB free mem to run old Clipper/dBase program.
A complicated combination. Have you considered either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harbour_compiler recompiling your Clipper program with Harbour, xHarbour or (non-free) Flagship? Or alternatively: Run your program in Dosemu (Linux) where you can turn any Linux directory into a DOS drive letter, including directories coming from any Windows network drive to your Linux, without MS Client? Similar things should also be possible with Dosbox in Windows. > With your advices I have managed to get 540KB. That would be all I need > ... [but] ... old Clipper/dBase program does not start and gives no error. Your configuration uses UMB space a lot. When you do not load MS Client or Clipper, possibly UMB-incompatible areas could be used less. So maybe your problem is not REALLY with Clipper: Maybe your UMB are always partially unusable, but you just do not notice the problem until Clipper sends MS Client requests. > fdconfig.sys: > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3403127/dosbox/fdconfig.sys > autoexec.bat: > https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/3403127/dosbox/autoexec.bat Which configuration shows which properties? 1. DOS=HIGH,UMB DOSDATA=UMB JEMMEX NOEMS I=C800-EFFF I=B000-B7FF NOVME NOINVLPG command.com loaded via SHELLHIGH See below about shellhigh. It seems very risky to me to so aggressively include UMB spaces on a modern computer, even including graphics RAM areas. Several UMB areas could overlap buffers used by your BIOS or (USB, net, disk) hardware. 2. similar but HIMEM (without options!) and JEMM386 X=TEST I=TEST NOVME NOINVLPG command.com loaded via SHELLHIGH I personally would not use SHELLHIGH for FreeDOS command.com, because it uses very little DOS RAM and already puts most data in XMS. The stress for UMB (SHELLHIGH is "heavy") IMHO is not worth it. 3. DOS=HIGH and only XMGR loaded for XMS and HMA 4dos used instead of command.com A lightweight way of using little RAM for memory drivers themselves, but of course also has 0 UMB. 4. no memory drivers, just command.com This is probably there for testing and as fallback? You always load DEVICEHIGH=c:\net\ifshlp.sys and I am not sure whether that is always required for MS Client. You do IF "%config%"=="2" LH SHARE but why only for 2.? LH C:\NET\net initialize C:\NET\netbind.com LH C:\NET\umb.com LH C:\NET\tcptsr.exe LH C:\NET\tinyrfc.exe LH C:\NET\nmtsr.exe LH C:\NET\net start Interesting combination, can you tail which of them does what and which of them takes how much RAM? Note that if a driver does not stay in RAM anyway, it is probably good to not use LH to load it either. This maybe affects "net"? Regards, Eric ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
