From:	Andrew Innes <andrewi AT harlequin DOT co DOT uk>
Newsgroups:	comp.emacs,gnu.emacs.help,comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: djgpp and dpmi under Emacs for win95
Date:	27 Oct 1997 16:31:57 -0800
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michael DOT mauch AT gmx DOT de (Michael Mauch) writes:
> On 23 Oct 1997 19:52:48 -0700, Andrew Innes <andrewi AT harlequin DOT co DOT uk>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Windows 95, Emacs (the Windows version that is, not the DOS version)
> > will get the VM memory settings for subprocesses from
> > c:\win95\system\conagent.pif.
> 
> Are you sure about this? I think the memory settings for conagent should
> not affect Win32 programs, even if they are console apps that look like
> DOS programs. I always thought that Win32 programs can get all the
> windows memory if they want it.

That's true, but the original question was about the amount of DPMI
memory available when running DOS programs from Emacs, which does depend
on the settings in a pif file.

> I just tried to change the memory settings for conagent, but Win95 tells
> me that these changes take effect only after I restart the program, but
> then the old settings are back again. Also, I don't have a conagent.pif
> neither in windows\system\, nor in windows\, nor in windows\pif\.

I think I may have created conagent.pif by hand (I haven't used Windows
95 for a long time, so I can't be sure).

AndrewI

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