Date: Sun, 4 Aug 1996 11:17:07 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Teemu Aaron Ikonen <tikonen AT niksula DOT hut DOT fi>
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: W95 & DJGPP
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On Sun, 4 Aug 1996, Teemu Aaron Ikonen wrote:

> I ran it in W95 dos-box which memory properties are:
> Conventional: Auto
> Initial Environment: 1024
                       ^^^^
This is too small.  Use at least 2048.

> DPMI memory available: 11280 Kb
> DPMI swap space available: 624 Kb
                             ^^^^^^
This is probably the main reason for failures.  Why is the swap space so 
small?

> It seems that only auto-setting for the DPMI & XMS properties cause 
> problems. if i use 24mb in DPMI, the output is:
> 
> go32/v2 version 2.0 built Jan 23 1996 22:03:02
> Usage: go32 coff-image [args]
> Rename this to go32.exe only if you need a go32 that can run v2 binaries as
>  well as v1 binaries (old makefiles).  Put ahead of the old go32 in your 
> PATH.
> DPMI memory available: 11280 Kb
> DPMI swap space available: 12336 Kb
> 
> but this hasn't caused problems so far.

Then I suggest you set the DPMI memory to any setting you want manually (I
suggest 64MB, which is the maximum Win95 will allow).  Most of DJGPP users
do that, and I never heard problems with that setup.  Note that DPMI
memory is only used when a DJGPP program runs, it is NOT put aside
permanently, so if you set the maximum to a large number, you don't really
give up any memory which other programs might otherwise use.