Re: Cross: MSDOS config.sys & autoexec.bat problem...

Alex Buell (alex.buell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
) wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:59:45 +1100, I waved a wand and this message
> magically appears in front of foxidrive:

> > >EMM386 only works with my program with NOEMS switch...
> > >and then it freezes my computer :(
> > 
> > emm386 does that if you have more than 256? Meg of ram.
> > You might be better off using FreeDos which works with more ram AFAIK.

> No it doesn't. I've got MSDOS 6.22 up and running on a 768MB box. Of
> course HIMEM/EMM386 only sees a subset of that but DOS4GW seems very
> happy using all of that...
> -- 
> Fearsome grindings.

***   There is a way to get HIMEM to recognise more than 64 MB of RAM, but
I can't remember what it is. I vaguely think I remember seeing the method
in some older Arachne do***entation, but a quick scan of my recent
version's docs turns up nothing. Does anyone remember this method?

         Richard Bonner
http://www.chebucto.ca/~ak621/DOS/