From: fordke@infonode.ingr.com (Keith Ford)
Subject: Am I really out of memory?
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Mon, 9 Nov 1992 18:33:08 GMT

I operate a bbs with an offline mail door.  After adding the needed
drivers for my CD-ROM drive, the door has been giving me QEMM errors
when it attempts to shell out and run a file compressor.  I have made
a number of attempts to use Stealth and such to free up more memory,
but I think it is all gone.  I did notice that DV uses a big chunk.
Is there anyway I can get more memory with this configuration?

In the MFT reports, DV is using 216K, but I'm not sure why.  I am
using DV.EXE instead of DV.COM, but both yield the same results.  Is
this normal or am I overlooking something?  It also happens when I
don't load DOS high and let DV go up there.

Send email to fordke@ingr.com

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CONFIG.SYS

DEVICE=e:\qemm\qemm386.sys r:2 dma=128 ram ST:M I=C800-CBFF
DEVICE=e:\qemm\loadhi.sys /r:2 e:\dos\setver.exe
DEVICE=e:\qemm\loadhi.sys /r:2 c:\mtmcdsa.sys /d:mscd001 /p:300 /a:0 /m:2 /i:3
DEVICE=e:\qemm\loadhi.sys /r:1 e:\dos\smartdrv.sys 2048 512
DEVICE=e:\qemm\loadhi.sys /r:1 e:\vgautil\mouse.sys
DEVICE=e:\qemm\loadhi.sys /r:2 x00.sys e nopost f=15 b,1,19200 t=2048 r=2048
dos=high
buffers=1
files=30
lastdrive=z

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AUTOEXEC.BAT

e:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 e:\qemm\BUFFERS=30
e:\qemm\loadhi /r:2 c:\mscdex /d:mscd001 /m:8 /l:s /v
@call c:\boot\common.bat
path=c:\;r:\DOS;r:\BIN;r:\MKS;r:\ARC;r:\NU;o:\;u:\KM;r:\QEMM;r:\BC\BIN;r:\DV;
ver
r:\nu\image
dv

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The startup script for DESQview runs a DOS window, which uses all
default values but these.

Program Name............: DOS Window
Keys to Use on Open Menu: DW
Memory Size (in K): 400
Program...: c:\command.com


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MFT - First Meg - Overview

Memory Area   Size   Description
0000 - 003F     1K  Interrupt Area
0040 - 004F   0.3K  BIOS Data Area
0050 - 006F   0.5K  System Data
0070 - 0514    18K  DOS
0515 - 3CA1   222K  Program Area
3CA2 - 9FFD   397K  [Available]
Conventional memory ends at 639K
9FFE - 9FFF     0K  Unused
A000 - AFFF    64K  VGA Graphics
B000 - B7FF    32K  High RAM
B800 - BFFF    32K  VGA Text
C000 - CFFF    64K  Page Frame
D000 - FFFC   191K  High RAM
FFFD - FFFF     0K  System ROM
    HMA        64K  First 64K Extended

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MFT - First Meg - Programs

Memory Area   Size   Description
0515 - 05A9   2.3K  COMMAND
05AA - 05AE   0.1K  DV Data
05AF - 05BF   0.3K  COMMAND Environment
05C0 - 05C3   0.1K  COMMAND Data
05C4 - 05D3   0.3K  DV Environment
05D4 - 3BEB   216K  DV
3BEC - 3BFB   0.3K  COMMAND Data
3BFC - 3C90   2.3K  COMMAND
3C91 - 3CA1   0.3K  COMMAND Environment
3CA2 - 9FFD   397K  [Available]
Conventional memory ends at 639K
B000 - B4CF    19K  SMARTDRV
B4D0 - B732   9.5K  MOUSE
B733 - B7FE   3.2K  [Available]
D000 - D35E    13K  QEMM386
D35F - D37A   0.4K  SETVER
D37B - D8AD    20K  MTMCDSA
D8AE - DB4D    10K  X00
DB4E - DB52   0.1K  [Available]
DB53 - DF40    15K  BUFFERS
DF41 - E715    31K  MSCDEX
E716 - FFFC    99K  [Available]
    HMA        64K  DOS=HIGH

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Keith E. Ford     __
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