Hi Vic!
Quoting your message of 12 Apr 98, 23:41 o'clock
to Peter Heberer in area "4DOS" about "no memory for 4dos under win95":
VB>BTW, if a dosbox is opened and a dos app is run in this box, then shell
VB>out from the app, it doesn't give an error.  It's as though 4dos isn't
VB>trying to use UMB's when a shell is started from another dos app. 
Now I'm confused.
I thought your problem was as follows:
a) boot into DOS -> 4DOS gets no UMBs
b) boot into GUI, then 4DOS-box: 4DOS *gets* UMBs
Now it seems it is as follows:
a) GUI -> 4dos-box -> ?UMBs or not???
b) GUI -> 4dos-box -> app -> 2nd 4dos-shell -> no UMBs ??
Could you clearify the different cases using a meta description like
above? 
That reminds me on another DOS program I'm using at times - SHEZ, a
pack/unpack shell for various compression programs.
With the configuration program you can set up if external programs
can make use of XMS and/or EMS.
Maybe it depends on the "main" program - if it allocates all
available UMBs for itself, you'll hardly be able to use them from a
program called by "shelling out".
Kind regards
        Peter
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