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- From: tga@oar.net (Germann Associates)
- Subject: Re: IBM OS/2 TCP-IP uses DOS (low) memory? HELP ME PLEASE!!
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.053109.22339@oar.net>
- Keywords: TCP-IP DOS OS/2 memory
- Organization: Ohio Academic Resources Network
- References: <alen.727807438@crash.cts.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 05:31:09 GMT
- Lines: 48
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- In article <alen.727807438@crash.cts.com> alen@crash.cts.com (Alen Shapiro) writes:
- >I'm in a bind...
- >
- >I have OS/2 v1.33 (can't use 2.0 due to lack of suitable device drivers)
- >I have an application that runs on a LAN (IBM Adaptor card) under OS/2
- >
- >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)
-
-
- Because the kernal and most of the device drivers in OS/2 1.x had to load
- low. This was to support the DOS box. Some of the device drivers are
- dual mode (i.e. they are user by both the DOS compatibility coffin and
- the OS/2 sessions themselves).
-
- And no, there ain't no way to change it. Guess you're SOL.
-
-
- >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)?
-
- Nope
-
- >3) Are there any TCP-IP packages (commercial or not) that either take a
- > small chunk of DOS memory or none at all?
-
- I'll defer this and the next to the rest of the net......
-
- >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.
- >
- >
-
-
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