From: shadow{at}shadowgard.com

On 29 Nov 2003 at 18:31, DONALD PEDDER wrote:

> > Leonard's statement that "anything running in any DOS" can only
> > use 640k, is not true of course, it is only true for some applications.
> 
>    So what do I need to do to make use of "beyond 640k"?

Other than using EMM/QEMM and the devicehigh and 
loadhigh commands to make sure that drivers get 
loaded into "upper" ram (unused areas betweem 640k 
and the 1 meg limit, there's not much you can do if 
the programs aren't written to use it.

Desqview or Taskmgr effectively create separate 
"640k" (minus drivers)areas for each task. 

BTW, your modem is probably hanging up because the 
DTR signal is going away when you switch to another 
task.

With DV, you can configure a task so it has 
exclusive access to a particular com port. Not sure 
how you do that with Taskmgr. Or even if you can.


--
Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at krypton dot rain dot com




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