reply to Robert Holmgren on memory problems, digest #137

["Bruce L. Felknor" bfelknor@xxxxxxxx]

Mr. Holmgren:

Re: my memory problems and your willingness to help:

You wrote,


I am in US, not UK, but I am using language code page 850, as I need the
diacritics in French and German (and occasionally others).

I'm using XYdos 4.017 with the Microlytics speller [(c) 1986-92], and it is
in c:\XY4, the same directory as Editor.exe.  The PATH statement, at least
the one in autoexec.bat, is in the directory c:\windows\command.

Upon checking free memory before and after launching XY4, as suggested in
Carl Distefano's exchange with Jim Eberle in issue 136 (June 15), by using
, I find that Xy is using memory as follows:
    memory before launching Xy       after launching
    free conventional      573968       446672
    free extended  15536128                  0
    free total   15536128            446672
    free total < 1 mb     573968        446672

To recap my basic system on the same page with the foregoing, I have an H-P
Pentium 75 mHz machine with 16 mb of RAM, a small C drive crowded with all
my programs, a 2.1 gb drive D with most of my data, and another 4 megs of
data storage on E, which is actually the portion of the hard disk holding D
which my BIOS does not recognize.

Thanks for your interest, and I await any suggestions with interest and
thanks. BTW, with memory so cheap now, I picked up 32 mb the other day
(for 30 bucks) and will install it in a few days. No doubt that will ease
the problem. But I would like to understand it and work through or around
it beforehand.

                Bruce Felknor