Hi Eric,


>>   0aa5     10,464   (10K)    IBMDSS14    device driver
>>                                          installed DEVICE=IBMDSS14
>>   0d34     25,824   (25K)    IBMDOSCS    device driver
>>                                          installed DEVICE=IBMDOSCS

> What is the purpose of those? Are you sure to need them?
how about googling this yourself?
'31.03.2006 - The IBMDSS14.SYS, IBMDOSCS.SYS and DICRMU01.SYS files
are PCMCIA Card and Socket. Services for the sample model IBM laptop.'





>> Upper Memory is not accessible


> I think it just falls back to loading low, but you can
> explicitly change DEVICEHIGH into DEVICE to try out.


it DOES fall back, no need to try.


>> C:\WINDOWS\SMARTDRV.EXE /X

> Are you sure that Windows SMARTDRV is a good cache for you?
yes, absolutely. SMARTDRV beats all FreeDOS caches by a long shot.

> It is not shown in your MEM output, does it fail to load?
most likely because it refuses to work on FreeDOS ?

>> Win /2
don't try to use WIN on FreeDOS; keep your working MSDOS.

> So you use DOS only for Windows? Interesting. You
> may want to check out the HXRT extender which can
> run basic Windows software without needing Windows.
AFAIK HXRT will run WinNT command line .PE executables; not  WIn 3.1
executables.

HXRT is not a  WIN 3.1 replacement


Tom


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