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thankyou Yolanda and Ole ... I went to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and got help
( I did a kind of manual memmaker to my config.sys and autoexec.bat )
after which I was not able to run memmaker yet was able to install the
nortons ... thanks again for your help
on Wed, 8 Sep 1999, Ole Juul wrote:
> Red the Hed wrote:
> > my system said: "not enough memory" - - - What does this
> > mean?
>
> Hi Red,
> Possibly just what it says. <g> You didn't say how much
> memory you had available.
> ^^^^^^^^^
>
> > here upon boot are my mem. settings:
> >
> > Base Mem Size: 640 KB
> > Ext. Mem Size: 7168 KB
>
> OK, so you have 8megs, but how much of that (particularly
> the first 640k) is already used?
>
> Sorry, if you already know all about this, but if you
> type "mem" you will get a short report of memory usage. It
> should look something like this: (I've snipped some lines)
>
> - Memory Type Total = Used + Free
> - ---------------- ------- ------- -------
> - Conventional 640K 58K 582K
> - Total under 1 MB 783K 173K 610K
> -
> - Largest executable program size 582K (595 536 bytes)
>
> That last line tells you a lot! If it is much lower than
> what I've shown, then you could have a problem with the
> way you're loading programs. CDRom drivers, for example,
> take up quite a chunk.
> If this is on the right track, type "mem/c/p" and post
> the results to the list and you'll get help. As Yolanda
> pointed out, memmaker can be useful too.
>
> Cheers,
> Ole Juul
>
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