Date: Tue, 6 Jul 93 11:52:44 EDT
From: ajay_kamdar AT Warren DOT MENTORG DOT COM
To: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu
Subject: upper memory area


I use EMM386 to enable the use of the upper memory area on my 386/25
NEC PC. Of course, if I use EMM386 with the NOEMS switch, then programs
using go32 will not run. But if I use the RAM switch on EMM386, then
go32 will use only the memory that EMM386 can provide to it. Since I
run other programs which use the extended memory, I can't give all
available RAM to EMM386, and hence I feel that I don't have an optimal
configuration. Ideally, I would like to enable the use of the upper
memory area without making go32 use expanded memory.

It seems to me that one possible way to configure my system better would
be to find a program which enables the use of the upper memory area without
making go32 think that it should use EMS.

Is there such a program which you use? It seems that there is some
program (umbdrvr) available on omnigate which probably does something
similar to what I want. Does it really do that? Has any one used it?
I have been unable to get that program myself and try it since I
have never been able to (yet) get into omnigate for anonymous ftp.
Are there other programs out there which fit the requirements?

Thanks.

- Ajay