Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!rutgers!dorm.rutgers.edu!medici From: medici@dorm.rutgers.edu (Mark Medici) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Help with HIMEM.SYS and WINDOWS 3 Message-ID: Date: 4 Nov 90 04:18:09 GMT References: <3367@ryn.esg.dec.com> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 23 Microsoft compresses the files on the Windows 3 distribution disks. For unknown reasons, the leave the filename intact for all files except *.SYS. The *.SYS files are renamed to *.SQS (or some such sillyness). There is an executable on disk 1 named EXPAND.EXE to uncompress the files. First copy EXPAND.EXE from disk 1 to your hard disk. Then search through your MS-Windows 3.0 distribution disks for HIMEM.*. When you have the right disk in drive A: (or B:), type [d:\path\]EXPAND [d:\path\]HIMEM.SQS [d:\path\]HIMEM.SYS Of course, substitute the correct drive ID and path, if necessary, in front of each filename. Don't write the expanded HIMEM.SYS on your original Windows distribution disk - this is considered very bad manners! Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mark Medici/SysProg3 * Rutgers University/CCIS * medici@elbereth.rutgers.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------