Date: Sun, 5 Oct 1997 16:51:02 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Molnar Laszlo <molnarl AT cdata DOT tvnet DOT hu>
cc: Charles Sandmann <sandmann AT clio DOT rice DOT edu>,
        DJGPP workers <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
Subject: Re: cwsdpmi and upper memory
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On Wed, 1 Oct 1997, Molnar Laszlo wrote:

> When I try "lh cwsdpmi" I got an "Program too big to fit in memory"
> error message. But if I load a program which occupies this 19kbytes of
> UMB, and try again "lh cwspdmi", it works

Did you try the /L and /S switches to LOADHIGH?  If not, please type
"help loadhigh" from the DOS prompt, read the info and try to play
with these two switches (and with "MEM /F" and "MEM /M CWSDPMI", like
the help tells you).  It seems that DOS is foolishly trying to load
CWSDPMI into a region that is too small.  Doesn't surprise me a bit,
that's why I always stayed away from DOS's LOADHIGH and used QEMM
instead.

> I'm just curious, whether this problem only exists on my system?

If it's a DOS bug, it surely exists on every other system as well ;-).
But not everybody has their UMBs stuffed like you do.