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- From: ross@kaos.b11.ingr.com (Ross Erickson)
- Subject: Re: MSCDEX loading hi?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan21.172523.21973@b11.b11.ingr.com>
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- Organization: Intergraph Corporation
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- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 17:25:23 GMT
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- >>>Can one load MSCDEX high using QEMM 6.0X? If so, could someone explain
- >>>to me how to do it, or point me to a source that can?
- >
- >> I have been working on this very problem all weekend, and finaly found the
- >>parameter /e. this loads MSCDEX into ram above 640. I was using EMM386 but
- >>any manager should work.
- >
- >I don't think this is quite what he wants. Using expanded memory is not the
- >same has loading something into an upper memory block, though it does help
- >to free low memory.
- >
- >Try using the QEMM optimize feature, and see where it puts MSCDEX. It'll probably
- >edit your autoexec.bat to say something like "loadhi /r:2 MSCDEX ....". Optimize
- >is described in the QEMM6.0 manual.
- >
- >Hope this helps.
-
- Mark,
-
- I'm afraid this doesn't help. optimize puts the settings in the right
- place, but the drive fails to be recognized once the program is loaded
- high. It doesn't work.
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