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to: MIKE BILOW
from: GEORGE FLIGER
date: 1996-12-31 18:03:00
subject: Re: Loading drivers high.

On 29 Dec 96 10:12pm, Mike Bilow wrote to William Hargrave:
 MB> William Hargrave wrote in a message to All:
 WH> I've got a Personal Netware network running under Dos 7 and
 WH> Win95. I need to load the drivers like LSL, NE2000, IPXODI,
 WH> SERVER.EXE and VLM into high memory. I've tried LoadHigh,
 WH> and using InstallHigh= in config.sys. Does anyone know if I
 WH> can load these drivers high. Would QEMM help?
 MB> I can't speak to the issue of Windows 95 compatibility, but
 MB> most of those drivers can be loaded high without trouble.  The
 MB> exception is VLM.EXE, since it contains code to load most of
 MB> itself into XMS.  By default, I believe that Windows 95 does
 MB> not load EMM386 by default, so you may have to do it manually.
VLM.EXE can also be used with the LoadHigh statement, causing the
remaining 5k or so of the resident portion to load itself in high memory
instead of conventional.  The code in VLM.EXE leaves about 5k in
conventional memory - why, I don't know as it works fine either way you
load it.
George
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