trig@dkatrig.ka.sub.org (Georg Trietsch) (05/15/91)
Once again, Hi! Is there anybody out there, who has AutoDesk's AutoCAD/386 running together with Windows 3.0 in Standard Mode ? The real problem is, using windows requires himem.sys. After himem is loaded no more extended memory is available but AutoCAD/386 needs 1Meg of pure extended memory or managed by an EMS manager providing VCPI interface. QEMM and 386MAX are doing this and are compatible with windows, but they refuse to run windows in standard mode, only real and enhanced mode. Now there is another problem, I also want to use a remote Oracle database and winapps based on Oracles's DLL require standard mode. For this reason QEMM and 386MAX aren't a solution. So the only solution I see is to use a memory manager which supports windows standard mode _and_ VCPI, not only DPMI as himem does. Any ideas ? Thanx for your help. ********************************************************************* * ----- . | UUCP : trig@dkatrig.UUCP | Georg Trietsch * * / /- / /_> | trig@dkatrig.ka.sub.org | Karlsruhe FRG * * / / / _/ | Voice : +49 721 758452 | * *********************************************************************
markv@hls.com (05/23/91)
In article <wiTu21w162w@dkatrig.ka.sub.org>, trig@dkatrig.ka.sub.org (Georg Trietsch) writes: > Once again, Hi! > > Is there anybody out there, who has AutoDesk's AutoCAD/386 running > together with Windows 3.0 in Standard Mode ? > > The real problem is, using windows requires himem.sys. After himem is > loaded no more extended memory is available but AutoCAD/386 needs 1Meg > of pure extended memory or managed by an EMS manager providing VCPI > interface. > > QEMM and 386MAX are doing this and are compatible with windows, but > they refuse to run windows in standard mode, only real and enhanced > mode. > > Now there is another problem, I also want to use a remote Oracle > database and winapps based on Oracles's DLL require standard mode. For > this reason QEMM and 386MAX aren't a solution. > > So the only solution I see is to use a memory manager which supports > windows standard mode _and_ VCPI, not only DPMI as himem does. > > Any ideas ? > > Thanx for your help. I 've used QEMM 5.11 and 5.12 with Windows and have had no problem getting windows up in standard mode. I vaguely remember once getting Desqview up and running windows in standard mode under Desqview. So it should be possible to use QEMM and Windows 3.0 in standard mode, and there is something fishy about your configuration that stops it from working. -- Mark van der Pol | "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty" markv@hls.com |Vroom Vrondel, spokesman for the association of Sages, Illum- (415 966 7486) |inaries, Philosophers and other professional thinking persons