Re: [Freedos-devel] New HIMEM64 release

2004-04-18 Thread Michael Devore
At 11:03 PM 4/18/2004 -0500, Michael wrote: >At 05:56 AM 4/19/2004 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: >>>Upper value should be 4194303, which is (4G / 1024) - 1. Not tested nearly that >>>high. >> >>what happens for a too high value: ignored, or set to that (4G/1024 -1) value? >>(basically same effect I

Re: [Freedos-devel] New HIMEM64 release

2004-04-18 Thread Michael Devore
At 05:56 AM 4/19/2004 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: >>Upper value should be 4194303, which is (4G / 1024) - 1. Not tested nearly that >>high. > >what happens for a too high value: ignored, or set to that (4G/1024 -1) value? >(basically same effect I guess..) It's whatever is standard for out of bou

Re: [Freedos-devel] New HIMEM64 release

2004-04-18 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Upper value should be 4194303, which is (4G / 1024) - 1. Not tested nearly that high. what happens for a too high value: ignored, or set to that (4G/1024 -1) value? (basically same effect I guess..) so "/METHOD:" ties the disk you use HIMEM on in worst case to a single computer system. I wish I

Re: [Freedos-devel] New HIMEM64 release

2004-04-18 Thread Michael Devore
At 12:30 AM 4/19/2004 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: >Michael, > >thanks for the newer release. >I was surprised the /MAX: was in Kilobytes (expected Megabytes like /MAXMEM= has in >NT/2000/XP), but this way it does allow to finetune total memory, and thus for >instance, determine minimum amount of m

Re: [Freedos-devel] New HIMEM64 release

2004-04-18 Thread Bernd Blaauw
Michael, thanks for the newer release. it indeed saves something like 32 bytes of memory. I was surprised the /MAX: was in Kilobytes (expected Megabytes like /MAXMEM= has in NT/2000/XP), but this way it does allow to finetune total memory, and thus for instance, determine minimum amount of memor

Re: [Freedos-devel] New HIMEM64 release

2004-04-18 Thread Michael Devore
At 03:37 AM 4/18/2004 -0500, you wrote: >Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/uploads are himem64.zip (executable) and >himem64s.zip (source) for a new test release of HIMEM64 (morphing to HIMEM in >official releases). The files are dated April 18, 2004. Naturally, I screw up a critical pie

[Freedos-devel] New HIMEM64 release

2004-04-18 Thread Michael Devore
Uploaded to ftp://ftp.devoresoftware.com/uploads are himem64.zip (executable) and himem64s.zip (source) for a new test release of HIMEM64 (morphing to HIMEM in official releases). The files are dated April 18, 2004. This version of HIMEM64 has three new options and greatly changed behaviors to