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Skriven 2004-12-12 00:28:07 av Gerald Miller (1:342/512)
    Kommentar till text 998 av Dan Ceppa (1:123/666.0)
Ärende: EMM386
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Hello Dan,

    Responding to a post in the WIN95 area:
    On Saturday December 11 2004 at 22:07,
    Dan Ceppa [1:123/666] wrote to Gerald Miller,
    about: EMM386

 GM>> I presume that you have run MEMMAKER from the DOS command line --
 GM>> NOT from a windows box?
 DC> Nope...  I don't seem to have a copy of MEMMAKER on my system.

Not to worry.  MEMMAKER is included with the supplemental disk.

 GM>>> DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE RAM HIGHSCAN I=B000-B7FF WIN=B300-B7FF
 DC>> Do you know of a reference source for thos parameters?  I think I
 DC>> have to tweak them to get them to work right under WIN

 GM>> IF you have the DOS supplemental disk installed on your 98 box,
 GM>> you should be able to type HELP (from the DOS command line) and
 GM>> then you can seek out the reference source for the devices (or
 GM>> any device, for that matter).
 DC> I'll have to check my floppies.

The HELP executable is also on the sup disk.

 GM>> If you don't have the supplemental disk, let me know and I will
 GM>> provide you with a URL where it can be obtained.
 DC> That would be helpful!  Thanks!

http://download.microsoft.com/download/win31/update/1/dos/en-us/sup622.exe

If you can't obtain the file from that URL, you can go to the following
Microsoft site and there is a link to download the supplemental disk:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb%3Ben-us%3B117600

When you execute sup622.exe, it will extract all the files into the current
directory (so be careful where you run this program from, otherwise you're
going to have a lot of files in a folder where you might not want them.
Maybe run the self-extracting executable in Windows\Temp.).

There is a single batch file to install all the supplemental files and your
destination directory should probably be where all the other DOS files
reside (Windows\Command, I believe).  The batch file will put SETVER.EXE in
the correct folder and you will have to modify your Config.sys file to add:

  DEVICEHIGH=C:\WINDOWS\SETVER.EXE

If this line is not added to Config.sys (and reboot the system), then any
of the supplemental disk programs that you might run will probably issue a
"Incorrect DOS version" error message.  Setver will make allowances and
fool Command.com into "thinking" these programs are okay to run and you
won't see the error message.

 GM>> When I ran MEMMAKER on my 98 box, it searched for Windows and
 GM>> optimized my Config.sys, Autoexec.bat and one of the Windows INI
 GM>> files (I can't remember which one; either WIN.INI or SYSTEM.INI).
 GM>> I may be incorrect, but my presumption is that the optimized
 GM>> Autoexec.bat and Config.sys files are for operations from the DOS
 GM>> command line.  The optimized Windows INI file is for operations
 GM>> in Windows (and I believe that includes any DOS boxes you might
 GM>> have open).

 DC> It sounds like I need a copy of MEMMAKER.

W98SE BEFORE Memmaker:

  Type of Memory       Total         Used          Free
  ----------------  -----------   -----------   -----------
  Conventional          593,920        48,640       545,280
  Upper                  92,768        92,768             0
  Reserved                    0             0             0
  Extended (XMS)     66,950,560             ?   131,776,512
  ----------------  -----------   -----------   -----------
  Total memory       67,637,248             ?   132,321,792

  Total under 1 MB      686,688       141,408       545,280

  Total Expanded (EMS)                 67,108,864    (64M)
  Free Expanded (EMS)                  16,777,216    (16M)
  Largest executable program size         545,264   (532K)
  Largest free upper memory block               0     (0K)
  MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.

W98SE AFTER Memmaker:

  Type of Memory       Total         Used          Free
  ----------------  -----------   -----------   -----------
  Conventional          593,920        32,064       561,856
  Upper                  92,800        92,800             0
  Reserved                    0             0             0
  Extended (XMS)     66,950,528             ?   131,772,416
  ----------------  -----------   -----------   -----------
  Total memory       67,637,248             ?   132,334,272

  Total under 1 MB      686,720       124,864       561,856

  Total Expanded (EMS)                 67,108,864    (64M)
  Free Expanded (EMS)                  16,777,216    (16M)
  Largest executable program size         561,840   (549K)
  Largest free upper memory block               0     (0K)
  MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.

Not a big gain, but I suppose every little gain is likely significant.

 DC> It's good to see that it works for you under WIN.

It's not easy (it never is).

Right now, I'm struggling with trying to get 4DOS v7.50 to work in 98SE.  I
have to figure out what memory tweaks are necessary in the 4DOS.PIF
properties.  Memmaker can't help me here... <sigh>

           Cheers ... Gerald

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