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From: hugh@slee01.srl.ford.com (Hugh Fader)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms.programmer
Subject: Re: BC++ in protected mode -- how?
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Date: 6 Jun 91 12:02:06 GMT
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I (Hugh Fader) writes:
> Here's where I ran into a problem. Borland's instructions for running
> BCX, the protected mode compiler, are to run tkernel, then bcx.
> However, tkernel seems to clash with himem.sys and smartdrive.sys. If
> these are installed, when I try to run bcx I get an error message
> indicating tkernel requires 576K. I think himem.sys is giving all my
> extended memory to smartdrive.sys.

I discovered that tweaking the parameters to smartdrive gets rid of
the problem. The windows installation set smartdrive to use 746K
memory initially and 256K minimum memory. The problem was fixed by
changing the parameter so that smartdrive takes 256K initially and
256K minimum.  This is no big deal because windows reduces
smartdrive's memory usage to the minimum amount anyway.

Hope this helps anybody who runs into the same problem.
--
Hugh Fader
hugh@slee01.srl.ford.com