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Bruce Boles
Oct 6, 2002, 5:57:26 PM10/6/02
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I gather this is a MS-DOS program? Search in the Help and Support Center on
"running MS-DOS Programs" and follow the advise you find. you may also try
running the program under cmd.exe instead of command.com.
"Jeremy" <Jer...@eldepot.com> wrote in message
news:91ec01c265a2$0e059770$37ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA13...
> I am running a program that requires the Largest
> Executable Program Size to be at <b>least</b> 590k. Now,
> I know this all runs off Gates' "640k is all anyone will
> ever need" concept. However, using Windows XP (the
> program I am running is a windows-based accounting
> software), MSDOS takes up 11.8k and DOSX runs 33.9k of
> that (and a few others running 2k or less).
> Unfortunately, this only leaves me with about 581k (9k
> short of what I need). Upper memory has about 44.4k free,
> and each of my systems has a gigabyte of RAM.
> The question I pose is: Is there anyway to free up that
> extra 10k of Conventional Memory in Windows XP? This is
> quite annoying, and I doubt the software company will
> allow me to return their product (even though they didn't
> say they've had problems with Windows XP, which we
> haven't encountered or have fixed so far, or that I
> needed that much Memory) so I'm really hoping there's a
> solution to this...
>
> Thanks for any information,
> Jeremy
> Electronics Depot, Inc.
"running MS-DOS Programs" and follow the advise you find. you may also try
running the program under cmd.exe instead of command.com.
"Jeremy" <Jer...@eldepot.com> wrote in message
news:91ec01c265a2$0e059770$37ef2ecf@TKMSFTNGXA13...
> I am running a program that requires the Largest
> Executable Program Size to be at <b>least</b> 590k. Now,
> I know this all runs off Gates' "640k is all anyone will
> ever need" concept. However, using Windows XP (the
> program I am running is a windows-based accounting
> software), MSDOS takes up 11.8k and DOSX runs 33.9k of
> that (and a few others running 2k or less).
> Unfortunately, this only leaves me with about 581k (9k
> short of what I need). Upper memory has about 44.4k free,
> and each of my systems has a gigabyte of RAM.
> The question I pose is: Is there anyway to free up that
> extra 10k of Conventional Memory in Windows XP? This is
> quite annoying, and I doubt the software company will
> allow me to return their product (even though they didn't
> say they've had problems with Windows XP, which we
> haven't encountered or have fixed so far, or that I
> needed that much Memory) so I'm really hoping there's a
> solution to this...
>
> Thanks for any information,
> Jeremy
> Electronics Depot, Inc.
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