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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: DOS in a window problems
Keywords: DOS Window
Message-ID: <1990Oct11.172133.11084@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 11 Oct 90 17:21:33 GMT
References: <8966@fy.sei.cmu.edu>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger)
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In article <8966@fy.sei.cmu.edu> jjs@sei.cmu.edu (Jeffrey Stewart) writes:
>Folks,
>
>     I've been trying to put DOS in a window on my 386 system, but haven't
>been having any luck.  The pif file is identical to one that worked on
>another system.
>
>     When I run the pif file, I get an error message that says, in effect,
>"There is insufficient memory to run another high-resolution application.
>Close the current high-resolution application (I assume this means Windows)
>first."  I then get a DOS window that is 1 line high.  
>
>     Running command.com, and then hitting Alt-Enter, gives the same result.
>
>     I have 4 meg in the system, and at the time of the error, there was
>3.2meg free, so when the "insufficient memory" error comes up, I get the
>feeling that it's talking about video memory.  My display card is the old
>ATI VIP VGA.  
>
>     Any ideas?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>
>Jeff
>
>jjs@sei.cmu.edu


I don't think it means video memory exactly, but memory to save the contents
of the window so it can be re-drawn when restored from icon, or if occluded
by another window. This is like a backing store.

Straight text uses the lease memory, CGA, EGA, and VGA use more and more memory
for a backing store. There are settings in the pif editor (advanced settings I
think) for determining what type of store to use. Try text, and see if that
helps.

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