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- From: alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro)
- Subject: IBM OS/2 TCP-IP uses DOS (low) memory? HELP ME PLEASE!!
- Organization: CTS Network Services (crash, ctsnet), El Cajon, CA
- Date: 23 Jan 93 16:41:20 GMT
- Message-ID: <alen.727807280@crash.cts.com>
- Summary: I need telnet under OS/2 and need to run DOS progs larger than 360k?
- Keywords: TCP-IP DOS OS/2 memory
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- I'm in a bind...
-
- I have OS/2 v1.33 (can't use 2.0 due to lack of suitable device drivers)
- I'm developing an application that runs on a LAN (IBM Adaptor card) under OS/2
- and talks with another application on DOS (can't put the DOS app. on
- OS/2 due to lack of device drivers!!)
-
- The OS/2 side needs to open a telnet session with a remote host. I have
- IBMs TCP-IP (latest release = 2.1.1 (or thereabouts)).
-
- The problem is that IBMs TCP-IP uses DOS memory for its 2 drivers IFNET
- and INET. Each driver uses 100k and another 140k seems to be unavailable
- to DOS (even with a fairly cut-down CONFIG.SYS). With 340k out of 640k
- unavailable to DOS, I can't run my 360k DOS application.
-
- QUESTIONS:
- 1) Why is 140k out of 640k unavailable to DOS with even a minimal
- CONFIG.SYS (i.e. no TCP-IP or LAN drivers)? ... Can this be changed?
- (RMSIZE is = 640 in CONFIG.SYS)
- 2) Can the TCP-IP drivers be persuaded to load high and thus be unavailable
- to DOS (and not use its memory) (I only need telnet from OS/2)?
- 3) Are there any TCP-IP packages (commercial or not) that either take a
- small chunk of DOS memory or none at all?
- 4) Are there utilities that will show me which drivers are using how much
- memory?
-
- Please help me...I'm in a maze of twisty passages all alike!!
-
- --alen
- Please email to
- alen@crash.cts.com
- I'll summarize for the net.
-