s2942275@techst02.technion.ac.il (Yaniv Golan) (06/25/91)
Thanx for all the answers i got for my question about how to enable TP6 to compile huge programs such as TVDEMO.PAS. But none of them helped me, since i already set everything possible to go to disk (link to disk, compile to disk, etc.). Maybe i should rephrase my question : What does TP6 use the EMS for ? Can it use it as additional memory for compilation or just as a quick mean to access overlays ? The Get Info option reports on my system that TP6 uses 300K of my memory. Is that the way it is with other configurations? Also - if i can't compile the DEMO program, how can i expect to compile a real TVision application ? -- Yaniv Golan s2942275@techst02.technion.ac.il
dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu (Duncan Murdoch) (06/26/91)
In article <27295@adm.brl.mil> s2942275@techst02.technion.ac.il (Yaniv Golan) writes: >Maybe i should rephrase my question : What does TP6 use the EMS for ? Can it >use it as additional memory for compilation or just as a quick mean to access >overlays ? It uses it for buffers for files, and maybe for something else in compiling. I have no trouble compiling TVDEMO, but when I look in the File Get info menu, I see Turbo is using 350K of EMS as well as 268K of regular RAM. Duncan Murdoch dmurdoch@watstat.waterloo.edu
defaria@hpcupt3.cup.hp.com (Andy DeFaria) (06/27/91)
>/ hpcupt3:comp.lang.pascal / s2942275@techst02.technion.ac.il (Yaniv Golan) / 11:01 pm Jun 24, 1991 / >Thanx for all the answers i got for my question about how to enable TP6 to >compile huge programs such as TVDEMO.PAS. But none of them helped me, since >i already set everything possible to go to disk (link to disk, compile to disk, >etc.). >Maybe i should rephrase my question : What does TP6 use the EMS for ? Can it >use it as additional memory for compilation or just as a quick mean to access >overlays ? The Get Info option reports on my system that TP6 uses 300K of my >memory. Is that the way it is with other configurations? >Also - if i can't compile the DEMO program, how can i expect to compile a real >TVision application ? Actually I think your problem is the fact that you have *extended* instead of *expanded* memory. TP will only use conventional memory or *expanded* memory. I have the same problem. You could run a driver that will allow you to partition some *extended* memory as *expanded* and thus give TP more memory to work with. The only one I found was something like EMM386.SYS. Since I only have a 286 I'm stuck. I could search for a driver but since Windows uses *extended* memory and I'm not that trilled with TV I figured that I would be better if I let Windows use the memory and stick to non-TV based TP code until I could get a PC with more horsepower and eventually move to TPW. Of course I could be all wrong!