Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!umich!yale!think!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!usc!ucsd!rutgers!apple!oliveb!orc!bu.edu!bucsf.bu.edu!eggbert From: eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu (Eugene Wang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Looking for utility programs Message-ID: Date: 2 May 90 17:33:07 GMT References: <1990Apr25.232617.6867@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <266@rm1.UUCP> <29484@cup.portal.com> Sender: news@bu.edu.bu.edu Distribution: usa Organization: Boston University Lines: 27 In-reply-to: rwp@cup.portal.com's message of 2 May 90 00:17:26 GMT >>>> On 2 May 90 00:17:26 GMT, rwp@cup.portal.com (Roger William Preisendefer) said: > I am looking for two different utilities. I need to convert extended memory > to LIM 4.0 expanded memory on a generic 286 motherboard. I need a shareware > or commercial program to do this (reliably!). Take a look at QRAM from Quarterdeck. It is a version of QEMM for 286's. Until June 30, they will also throw in their Manifest program which will let you see what your memory is doing and suggest ways to improve it. > I also need a program to allow a drive to be partitioned larger than 32Mb > under DOS 3.3. I have DOS 4.01, but it has crapped out one too many times > in critical situations to be acceptable. Again, either shareware or > commercial software is acceptable, but it has to be reliable with some > disk intensive programs (like Pagemaker). > Roger Preisendefer Ontrack's Disk Manager is very common since it's shipped with all Seagate drives. There is a full-featured commercial version for all types of drives but I have also seen copies on numerous BBSes so it may be free/shareware. However, it will not create a partition greater than 32MB on the boot partition C:. This may be a DOS limitation, but I'm not sure. -- Eugene Wang eggbert@bucsf.bu.edu