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From: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Desqview 386 Problems
Message-ID: <2520@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 4 Aug 89 15:19:15 GMT
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In article <632@dtix.ARPA> jmoore@dtix.navy.mil (Jim Moore) writes:
<Situation :
<
<   I recently bought DesqView (V 2.2) and QEMM.  GOAL : to be able
<   to run Ventura publisher 2.0 in extended memory via Desqview
<   and QEMM.
<
<PROBLEM :
<   It almost works.  I have installed DesqView, rename xdv.com to dv.com,
<   execute dv, the open a window and run the memroy status program.
<   It tells me there is 3300K of available extended memory and
<   the largest block size is 430K!!!  The DesqView manual says that
<   there should be 550K for the largset block!!!

You have a complete mis-understanding of what multi-tasking software will
do for you.  If you are thinking that you can make DV give VP more than
640K to work with, forget it.  Even though you have 4Mb of memory in the
system, DV breaks that up for each DOS partition that is opened.  It makes
little DOS systems out of the memory that is there.  Unfortunately, it eats
up some of the 640K for its overhead, which is why I use VM/386, which
provides real 640K for DOS.  Anyway, if you were hoping to take some of the
extended memory and "give" it to VP to make it think that is has, say, 2Mb
of memory to work in, it won't.

You are actually losing available DOS memory because of DV.

Doesn't VP use expanded memory?  If so, you can use an expanded memory piece
of software and provide all the memory that can be given to VP.  Also, don't
use DV, as you will lose some of the 640K.

Remember DV is for when you want to run more than one DOS program at the
same time, not to manage memory for a single DOS program.
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