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From: valley@gsbsun.uchicago.edu (Doug Dougherty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.desqview
Subject: Memory needed in DV vs. memsize shown via LOADHI /GS
Summary: QEMM's LOADHI shows memory usage 170K, DV needs at least 275K window
Keywords: desqview qemm loadhi memory
Message-ID: <1991Jun16.020113.28578@midway.uchicago.edu>
Date: 16 Jun 91 02:01:13 GMT
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I just setup a DV window for playing the game Klondike (A really nice
solotaire game; much better than the one that comes with WIN3, BTW)

To try to figure out how much memory to allocate to the DV window, I ran
KL in Big DOS window using LOADHI /GS.  I ran the game (played a full game)
and LOADHI came back saying it required about 174K  (0K resident)  So I
figured I'd leave a bit of slack and set the window size in DV (on the
first page of Add/Change a Program) to 190.  But when I ran it, it came
back with "Klondike: Program too big to fit in memory".  Well, some
number of tries later, I determined that the magic number is somewhere
between 250 & 275K  (I.e., it works with it set to 275 [which is where I
am leaving it] but fails at 250K)

Why the discrepancy?  (I could understand a small discrepancy, but 100K???)
I had been given to understand that using LOADHI /GS like this *was* the
approved method of figuring out how much mem a program used.  (BTW,
yes, I set the "Program....." field to KLONDIKE.EXE, so as to run it
directly, rather than via COMMAND.COM)

Also, as an aside, how exactly does DV load a program in a window when
you give it a ".EXE" or ".COM" filename?  Seems I've heard something
about it using SHELL or some such as a sort of Q&D COMMAND.COM, but,
interestingly enough, when I did "dir sh*" in my DV directory, it came
back with "File not found".  Whither it???

TIA, of course...
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