From: softbrek AT POOL DOT Informatik DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE
Subject: Re: Ramdrive
To: bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com (Bill Davidson)
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 1995 13:46:14 +0100 (MET)
Cc: djgpp AT sun DOT soe DOT clarkson DOT edu (djgpp)

Hello, Bill

You wrote to the DJGPP list:
> 
> On Wed, 11 Jan 1995, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>   
> > How can this be when go32 reports only 1900K free before the
> > program starts:
> Ok, if you didn't see my latest post, go32 reported 1400Kb and info 
> reported 1768 Kb.  How can this be?  How the f*** should I know?! I just 
> started using this package!  Could the difference between total extended 
> memory and extended+conventional memory be it?

No, it couldn't, because conventional memory is close to irrelevant to
go32 (if you're having enough to run 3 nested go32's and are not
planning on recursive calls of make, that is).

> 
> > You might also try without RAMDRIVE at all.  If you have a disk

Yes! *Do* try it!  FYI, this is my guess at the perhaps configuration for
getting short compile times on "normal" machines, having enough MB's
inside (and no QEMM available):

   HIMEM
   EMM386 RAM FRAME=NONE [other flags perhaps]
              ^^^^^^^^^^ Beware! may sometimes cause trouble!
   SMARTDRIVE C+ XXXX
   set TEMP={some dir on your fastest drive having free space >4MB}
   set TMP=%TEMP%
   set GO32TMP=%TEMP% 

(Reasons for this choice can be given, if someone wants to know)

> [...]
> 
> Incidentally, I still use an old mono monitor and Hercules compatible 
> video.  I notice that all refernces to video are to VGA.  Could this be a
> problem? (But if so, what the heck has RAMDRIVE got to do with it?)
May be, may be not. (You should really get one of those cheapo SVGA's,
IMHO: they're so cheap that some vendors might even throw them at
your back for not shutting their shops doors! :-)

Some other guesses off the top of my head:

Did you try to put all the necessary files (info.exe, go32.exe and
some info files) from your harddisk to a floppy, take them to 
a friend's machine and try them out there? This might help to find
out if the problem is a your-machine-only one (That friend should
have a machine sufficiently different from yours, of course)

Forgive my lossy brain, but I don't remember having seen a copy
of a complete description of your machine (hard and soft), on
the list, so could you please mail that info to me? I did the
initial port of info.exe to DJGPP, and therefore still feel 
a bit responsible to keep it running, so I really want to
have this wed out.

> Bill Davidson
> bdavidson AT ra DOT isisnet DOT com
> 

Hans-Bernhard Broeker 
(softbrek AT POOL DOT Informatik DOT RWTH-Aachen DOT DE  or)
(Broeker AT axpmgr DOT physik DOT rwth-aachen DOT de       )