Hi Terry

 >  NP> I have a 286/12 to setup, and have discovered that it has 1024k of
 >  NP> XMS. I have loaded Himem.sys and that has allowed me to load DOS high
 >  NP> I have had no experience of 286's (I jumped from XT's to 386's) and
 >  NP> hoping someone can inform me as HOW I can get to use this 980k.

 >  NP> Using the 386 method of loading EMM386 only results in an error
 >  NP> message of "incorrect processor type"

 > Funny that.

:-)
I should have added "as I figured it would"


>  Have you got a copy of EMMANY?

Nope!
If it will solve the problem, I am willing to FREQ it if I know where from.


 >  NP> I have tried 2 progs that the manual advises can use XMS memory,
 >  NP> but both these programs report that XMS memory is unanvailable.

 > There may be a set-up function within the proggies. One program that
 > should be able to use it is `vdisk'.

I will try and track that one down. I have an old Freeware Ramdrive but it
only uses conventional memory. ;-(


 > FWIW, I have a copy of `Headroom'
 > 2.0 which will allow you to task-switch TSRs and applications into this
 > space. You can load 32 TSRs without using any conventional memory [other
 > than the 50K headroom takes].

That sounds like a useful option.
How do I manage to get it from you (at my cost that is!)

 > The various versions of DRDOS will let you do something similar.

I haven't got a DRDOS. I do have Novell DOS 7 but have not installed it on
the two main network machines as they operate in WIN 3.1 most of the time,
so I'm not conversant with ALL it's possibilties.

Thanks for your much appreciated assistance.

Cheers
Niels Petersen

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