Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 12:14:33 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Bjorn De Meyer <bgdmeyer AT eduserv2 DOT rug DOT ac DOT be>
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Subject: Re: Problem located was Re: Allegro: BUG in grabber?
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On Tue, 10 Nov 1998, Bjorn De Meyer wrote:

> If you use Caldara's VDISK.SYS, you MUST use EMM386.EXE, with dpmi
> disabled (I always do that.), while if you are using M$ RAMDRIVE.SYS,
> you MUST use the old msdos memory managers. *!$% microsoft and their
> buggy programs :>. This is really one to remember for all Opendos users...
> What is causing the crash however seems to be a bit of a mystery... 

Unless I'm mistaken, VDISK forces a different method of allocating
extended memory.  This might be an explanation for the problems you
had.

> VDISK.SYS crashes and the swapped out data is gone because it was on the
> virtual disk, CWSDPMI tries to get it from there, but the virtual disk has
> nuked already, so... finito. 

Why did you put the swap file on a virtual disk?  The swap file is
needed if you don't have enough physical memory for your programs.
Why does it make sense to use up some of that memory for the swap?