At 03:16 PM 4/27/2004 +0200, Eric Auer wrote: >Hi, I would call X=TEST either HIGHSCAN or SAFESCAN if you >were to ask me what syntax should be used to "exclude all >high areas which contain other than all-0 / all-ff". >By the way, while googling for NoMovExBDA I found that in >EMM386 of DOS 6.22 / newer ROM= got improved. If that means >that older versions did not use ROM= at all, it would be yet >another reason why EMM386 of FreeDOS does not need ROM= at >least in FreeDOS 1.0 (most newer boards / BIOSes copy ROM to >shadow RAM anyway and need no help from EMM386 - even an old >386 board in my family needed no EMM386 help to shadow ROM).
HIGHSCAN is an existing EMM386 Microsoft option and has a specific meaning: try to use the memory areas F000 - F7FF for UMB's. We may support it someday. It definitely shouldn't be recycled to something else. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Robotic Monkeys at ThinkGeek For a limited time only, get FREE Ground shipping on all orders of $35 or more. Hurry up and shop folks, this offer expires April 30th! http://www.thinkgeek.com/freeshipping/?cpg=12297 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
