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From: ralf+@cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Re: Recommendations for cache under Desqview?
Message-ID: <13094@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 18 May 91 03:09:33 GMT
References: <1991May16.022630.20602@cbnewsh.att.com> <6450@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991May17.172418.23832@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <1991May17.172418.23832@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> smsmith@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu (Stephen M Smith) writes:
}[CONFIG.SYS]
}  BUFFERS=20/x
}
}[Manifest]
}    BUFFERS=30/X       0CAE - 0CCA   0.5K   Drive List
}
}  Notice that with the /x option the Buffer list reads 0K memory!

Yeah, but take another look at the Manifest report.  When using the /X
option, DOS allocates buffers in multiples of 30 in order to fill out
16K EMS pages as completely as possible (30 buffers at 532 bytes each leave
424 bytes unused).



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