Re: [Freedos-devel] XMS + UMB + DPMI ?

2004-02-01 Thread Steve Nickolas
At 1 Feb 2004 9:38am -0500, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: > OK, more questions. My boot disk uses DJGPP, which needs a DPMI > provider. I also need to maximize the free conventional memory > (winnt.exe uses a lot), so I also want to have an XMS (or is that > HMA?) provider and a UMB provider. > >

Re: [Freedos-devel] XMS + UMB + DPMI ?

2004-02-01 Thread Erwin Veermans
> Right. So here are my questions. First, is there some better > combination of utilities I should use? Second, what am I losing, > exactly, by using umbpci.sys instead of emm386.exe? And finally, how > come cwsdpmi doesn't work with emm386.exe? I can share my experience with FreeDOS memory ma

[Freedos-devel] XMS + UMB + DPMI ?

2004-02-01 Thread Patrick J. LoPresti
OK, more questions. My boot disk uses DJGPP, which needs a DPMI provider. I also need to maximize the free conventional memory (winnt.exe uses a lot), so I also want to have an XMS (or is that HMA?) provider and a UMB provider. At the moment, I am using himem.exe, umbpci.sys, and cwsdpmi. I hav