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From: raymond@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Eric A. Raymond)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Problem w/ SWAP 1.2 and source code wanted
Message-ID: <2863@einstein.ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov>
Date: 6 Nov 89 02:21:26 GMT
Reply-To: raymond@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov (Eric A. Raymond)
Organization: NASA Ames Research Center
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I'm having a small problem with Niko Mak's SWAP program (version 1.2).
The documentation says that it will try EMS, then EXT, and then disk
in the absense of any switches.  Well if I try to use swap when most
of my EMS and EXT is being used, I get an error message of the form:
"Could not allocate extended memory."   It does not try to use the
disk.

Of course this can be avoided by always swapping to disk (add -D
switch), but this won't take advantage of the EMS when it's free.

Any ideas?  Is swap archived anywhere?  The swap directory on Simtel
is for a different type (TSR) of swapping.

Also, I have the source to swap 1.0 but not 1.2.  I could easily fix
the problem if I had the source.

-- 
Eric A. Raymond  (raymond@ptolemy.arc.nasa.gov)
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