Re: available memory

[Paul Lagasse pglagasse@xxxxxxxx]

Patricia M. Godfrey wrote:
> I just pulled up one of my largest Xy files, 112,468 Bytes, heavily
> formatted, and ran some SEearches and CVs on it, and I did not go OOM
> or get the dreaded "Cannot continue scrolling" message (which can
> sometimes be escaped from by switching to expanded mode).
In WinXP and in Dosemu/Linux, I have regularly culled and created 3.4 MB
text files using XyWrite; a second file is always open as the first
grows and is usually c.400KB. Xy seems to fail somewhere above 4 MB of
open files in WinXP; the barrier seems to be higher in Dosemu with EMS
set to 4096 in .dosemurc (I played with it prior to writing this, and I
had 6.2 MBs open in 5 files and ran a successful cia command; opened
another .7 MB and had Dosemu hang with the next cia command. I'd never
normally have this much open. The X appeared somewhere around 4 MB.)
Xy4 had preferred config.sys and/or autoexec.bat settings in the old DOS
days, relating to files and buffers I think. I've been searching, trying
to find out what those were, because I'd like to tweak the similar files
in Dosemu. Does anyone remember what those settings were? Many thanks.

Paul Lagassé


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