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From: sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu (Charles W. Sandmann)
Subject: Re: Running under OS/2? (fwd)
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (DJGPP Mailing List)
Date: Sun, 29 Aug 1993 16:53:27 -0600 (CDT)

> Hullo list -- I installed djgpp under OS/2 2.1 to run in a
> DOS window and when I try to compile hello.c I get
> DPMI: Not enough memory (0x00410000 bytes).
> I must have set it up wrong since I have 20MB on the machine
> and djgpp runs fine on my machine at school which has 8 MB
> running DOS 5.  Does anyone know of a workaround for this
> problem?  OS/2 manuals talk about DPMI but don't help much..

Go to the DOS settings and increase the DPMI memory limit from the 
default of 2 MB to something like 6Mb or 8Mb.  It will work.  OS/2
is one of the reasons I did the DPMI stuff!  Good luck.

(If you don't know how, use the left mouse button click on the icon).

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