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From: ns@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Nick Solntseff)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Permanent Swap File Problems
Message-ID: <26E3D187.26166@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 4 Sep 90 16:08:39 GMT
References: <12762@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1990Aug21.080823.10815@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> <33470@cup.portal.com>
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In article <33470@cup.portal.com> Neptune@cup.portal.com (Dwayne R Farley) writes:
>Greetings!
> 
>I'm having problems setting up a permenant swap file.  
>When I try to run swapfile while in real mode from within Windows, 
>it tells me there is an incompatible driver in my config.sys file.
>I've tried disabling all the devices in the config.sys file.  
>Here is what I have:
> 
> ... deleted ...
>
> 
>Any suggestions?
> 
>Neptune@cup.portal.com
>Dwayne Farley

The culprit I have discovered is dmdrvr.bin.  In order to use a permanent
swapfile, I had to resort to an upgrade of DOS to ver 4.01 which partitions
the disk itself without the need to use the dmdrvr.bin driver.

Nick Solntseff.....