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From: ak7g@maxwell.acc.Virginia.EDU (Ashish Kapur)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Extended Memory blues
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Date: 7 Mar 91 17:37:24 GMT
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I am sorry if this question has already been addressed.

I am having problems with my windows 3.0a program after
I installed 1M extended memory.

I am running in standard mode.

I have a total of 2M of memory now.
Details of my system:

386-25MHZ clone.
ST157n-1 Seagate SCSI 48MB hard drive.
Windows version 3.00a


The config.sys file reads as:

CONFIG.SYS
--------------------------------------------------------
FILES=30
BUFFERS=30
device=c:\himem.sys
device=c:\windows\smartdrv.sys 768

---------------------------------------------------------

Now when I boot up my system the windows startup logo is displayed but
after that the system hangs up

Then I changed my autoexec.bat file to load norton's caching program
( I kept the config.sys file the same )

AUTOEXEC.BAT
-------------------------------------------------------
.
.
.
c:\norton\ncache-f ext
.
.

.
c:\windows\win

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This allots the maximum available extended memory as cache.
At startup ncache displays 192K of extended memory being allocated
to the cache.
Now windows works fine....

About in the program manager displays the following

Standard Mode
Available Memory    900K
Available resources 78%

Can anyone tell me what's going on?
Why does loading the norton cache program solve the problem?

BTW if I hadn't installed the cache program I would had more free
memory available.

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Second question:

I am pretty dissapointed with the paintbrush that comes with windows.
Are there any paintbrush/figure drawing packages for windows that offer
more features (like simple lines with arrowheads for example) ?

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Thanks for listening.


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Ashish Kapur

Center for SemiCustom Integrated Systems
University of Virginia

email: ak7g@Virginia.EDU

"Every silver lining's got a touch of grey" 

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