From: Eugene Ageenko Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp Subject: Re: MSDOS + DPMI + Win98 Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 19:21:06 +0300 Organization: University of Joensuu / Dept. of Computer Sci. Lines: 42 Message-ID: <374D70F2.6B090B9@cs.joensuu.fi> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: cspc52.joensuu.fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.51 [en] (Win95; I) X-Accept-Language: ru To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com DJ-Gateway: from newsgroup comp.os.msdos.djgpp Reply-To: djgpp AT delorie DOT com Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > On Fri, 21 May 1999, taupin wrote: > > > But I'm somewhat anxious about one problem: in order to have an amount > > of memory sufficient under Win95, I was advised by Eli Zaretzki to push > > the DPMI memory parameter of Win95/DOS up to 65535 (i.e. the power of 2 > > minus one). > > > > But on Win98, the manual posting is rejected so that I can only post > > 16384, no more. > > Are you sure? Nobody has complained about this until now, so please > describe *exactly* how did you try to set the DPMI memory property > (all the clicks and all the keys you pressed) and what Windows said to > the effect that it rejects the setting. Richt click on Command (or DOS program icon) Choose properties, choose tab Memory there is "MS-DOS protected-mode (DPMI) memory" I keep it 65535. The default values goes up to 16384, but it is allowed to type 65535 It is the way it works in Win 95 OSR2 If Win98 limits this value to 16384, then you it is too bad for that OS. :( In my expirience, Windows will use the value set here, or min(16384,available memory) if set for AUTO. BTW there is no way to get more memory than 64 Mb for your task under W95. (probably itis possible under Windows NT but you should have enough RAM or your machine will die of swapping and probably blue the screen) Eugene Ageenko