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From: viggo@freja.dk (Allan Kim Schougaard)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: AST EMS with Windows&Excel FIX!!!
Message-ID: <4001@freja.dk>
Date: 29 Aug 88 18:00:03 GMT
Organization: DIKU, U of Copenhagen, DK
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I use an Ast Premium/286 with MS Windows and MS Excel. It all
worked fine until I tried to install the REXX.SYS that came
with Windows 2.03. Before I used Rexx 3.0 but the ms-excutive
reported no EMS-menory, strangely enough Excel did (well not
to strange because Excel has it own memoryhandler both
EMS, EEMS and extended). When I installed the new Rexx (with
a strange verion number, something like 3.30.26) PC-tools
reported all my memory as EMS, only 640 KB was taken and
Windows reported something like 800 KB free EMS. BUT if I ran Excel
and took tutorial in the help menu without taking anything else
in that menu first, the programme froze.

FIX FIX FIX FIX FIX

I thought that maybe there wasn't enough process id's for the
tutorial to run (maybe taken something else from the help menu
cleared som ids, who knows?!). So I changed the /P= (or /pids=)
to see if that cleared the problem. It and it didn't; setting
p=100 or 256 (I think) worked, but p=150 didn't (I think).
Then I thought of the depth; using /d=31 and p=256 worked
(Excel reporting 512 (more or less) KB free EMS, less
d didn't work on the values I have tried. BUT setting /D=32
workes !!! (Don't set the /p, it only takes up memory (I
think)). This way Excel reportes only about 400 KB free EMS but
it works (unlike /d=31 and p=256 which had some trouble with my
genius mouse).


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