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From: ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
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Subject: PC/TeX-386, extended memory, Windows
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(Running on a 386 box with 4M of RAM)

Tex needs 1.3M of contiguous extended memory to run (Phar Lap
Extender).  How do I make it coexist with (say) smartdrv.sys?  If
I just load smartdrv.sys in config.sys, tex doesn't like it,
saying he doesn't find 1.3M of contiguous extended memory to live
in (and he's right, I guess).  The answer would be to get
smartdrv.sys (and ramdrive.sys too, ideally) use memory further
up in high memory.. is this possible?

Has someone written a device driver which merely takes up memory
at config-time but fools applications into thinking they have
clean space?

How does one get Windows 3 to show an application 1.3M of
extended memory?

Thanks,

	-ans.
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