At 07:41 AM 5/28/2005 -0700, coralline algae wrote:
I am testing a program pari/gp which i downloaded from here
ftp://megrez.math.u-bordeaux.fr/pub/pari/dos/
only two files are necessary for the dos install
gpb_210.zip
gprt.zip
tested initially on freedos b9sr1 with emmx202.zip
version of himem.exe and emm386.exe and was
not able to get it running, either the app would
msg out of memory or the system would crash.
GP stuff using EMX/RSX has the same problem as RAR32 does, mentioned in
EMM386 2.02 release announcement. EMX/RSX extender is unhappy with too
much available extended memory when EMM386 is loaded.
However, unlike RAR32 which fails if more than MAX=429M option is specified
in the HIMEM (not EMM386) line, GP will not fail until the MAX= setting is
higher than 434M. 5M difference is possibly due to the larger size and
memory requirements of GP.EXE.
I don't know what's going on in EMX/RSX's little pin head, but the
workaround is to limit your total available extended memory in HIMEM when
using it to, oh, /MAX=424M ought to be safe.
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