Re: Loading Yarn High-- Some Advantages

From: John A. Stanley (jstanley@gate.net)
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 1998 10:08:36 -0500

In article <199806280346.UAA04389@ shell1.ncal.verio.com>,
Howard Schwartz <theo@ncal.verio.com> wrote:

>I use the 32-bit version of Yarn...

Do you mean the Win95 console mode version?

>I recently solved the puzzle. If one escapes to DOS (with the !
>command) from within yarnx.exe

Isn't yarnx.exe a regular DOS version?

>and runs mem, one learns that, in DOS's
>view, yarnx is loaded in ``low'', conventional memory -- consuming
>actually almost half of it. Of course, yarnx doesnt care because its
>dos extender lets it use all the ram it needs.

I run Yarn95 in a DOS window, and with Yarn, two Netscape windows,
NetTerm, and SouperGUI all running I get the following when I ! to a
DOS prompt and run mem:

C:\YARN>mem

Memory Type Total Used Free
---------------- -------- -------- --------
Conventional 640K 62K 578K
Upper 0K 0K 0K
Reserved 384K 384K 0K
Extended (XMS) 64,512K ? 97,120K
---------------- -------- -------- --------
Total memory 65,536K ? 97,698K

Total under 1 MB 640K 62K 578K

Largest executable program size 578K (591,792 bytes)
Largest free upper memory block 0K (0 bytes)
MS-DOS is resident in the high memory area.

Editing my batchfile that starts Yarn to include "lh" in front of the
Yarn executable didn't result in mem returning a result that differs
from the above. Switching back to yarnx, with and without "lh" also
failed to change the mem results. Am I missing something here?

-- 
John A. Stanley                      jstanley@gate.net

"Hey! You got your razor in my wager!"