I'm playing with vim in FDOS. It's nice, but a bit slow in some respects,
particulary when using its internal file-browser. I am running FDOS from a
thumbdrive on a modern (well, only a few years old) computer. I added
"DEVICE=...himemx.exe" to my config.sys file to fix a separate issue, which
worked for that issue, but not for vim's slowness. Any ideas?
PS An update: I'd asked abt Pictview not loading more than a few lines of
images files before failing with a memory msg, and was told how to load
himemx at that time. Believe it or not, at the time I was a little
overwhelmed by what was needed for troubleshooting. But when I did try it
just now, to try and fix the vim issue actually, it worked flawlessly for
the Pictview issue. Also, Pictview is able to display Photoshop files
(.psd) as advertised, and PNG files too. And fast. Pretty amazing.
On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 2:47 AM, <freedos-user-requ...@lists.sourceforge.net
> wrote:
From: Rugxulo <rugx...@gmail.com>
To: "Discussion and general questions about FreeDOS." <
freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net>
Cc:
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 23:15:26 -0500
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] emm386, himem.sys, config.sys
The FAQ says this: "PictView is written mainly in assembler and it
runs on any 386 machine with at least 1 MB of RAM and a VGA adapter."
Though it goes on to mention XMS, which sounds correct (though I admit
to only rarely running pictview.exe as I'm no multimedia buff).
So no, that's not EMS, so you don't need EMM386 at all, AFAIK. You
only need the equivalent of HIMEM.SYS (usually HIMEMX or XMGR or FDXMS
or similar). The file "jemmex.exe" contains "himemx.exe +
jemm386.exe", but I'm not sure that's what you want either.
So yeah, like Louis said, put "DEVICE=c:\fdos\himemx.exe" or
"DEVICE=c:\fdos\xmgr.sys" in your CONFIG.SYS and try again.
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