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- From: tech@CCSG.TAU.AC.IL (Yossi Goltz)
- Subject: Re: Minimize needed memory for MSC
- Message-ID: <Pine.3.05.9301232256.B21040-b100000@ccsg.tau.ac.il>
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- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 20:16:02 GMT
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- On Sat, 23 Jan 1993 ptadc@LEVELS.UNISA.EDU.AU wrote:
-
- > In article <1993Jan16.180832.1@ttd.teradyne.com>, rice@ttd.teradyne.com writes
- :
- > > In article <1j3srkEINNr7s@uni-erlangen.de>, menath@lte.e-technik.uni-erlange
- n.
- > de (Thomas Menath) writes:
- > >>
- > >> Hi there,
- > >> I am Thomas from Germany and have a little problem, the Microsoft CD-Extens
- io
- > ns
- > >> (Version 2.21) need too much of my RAM (about 50KB). I am using the CD-ROM
- CM
- > 205. There is no difference if I use LOADHIGH and DIVICEHIGH.
- > >>
- > >> Maybe someone of You have solved this problem.
- > >>
- > >
- > > I have MSCDEX loaded high - using QEMM and QEMMs LOADHIGH. It's using about
- > > 15.5K. Also using the "/E" command line argument, which will cause MSCDEX to
- > > use Expanded Memory if it is available.
- > >
- > > John Rice K9IJ
- > > rice@ttd.teradyne.com
- >
- > This doesn't really answer your problem but I use my CD player mainly
- > within Win. 3.1 so I load MSCDEX line in WINSTART.BAT in the WINDOWS
- > directory. This batch file is run automatically when you enter WIN/3.--
- >
- > When you return to DOS prompt from Windows you still have that extra
- > 40+K RAM as MSCDEX is not in memory. This is really handy for all those
- > important DOS games such as Wolfenstein, etc. ;-).
- >
- > Allan.
- >
- > ______________________________________________________________________________
- __
- > Allan Christie || Internet: Allan.Christie@UniSA.Edu.Au
- > University of South Australia || Fax: +618 302 2766
- > GPO Box 2471, ADELAIDE, AUST. 5001 || Phone: +618 302 2425
- > ==============================================================================
- ==
-
- Hi!
-
- I load MSCDEX into Hi memory on my 386SX ussing the devicehigh=....
- in my config.sys file. this takes about 50k of my hi memory but
- leaves the 640k conv.. memory intact.
-
- Yossi Goltz
- Onyx Tech.
- Israel.
-