Re: MMail: HIMEM.SYS and MMDOS

On Sat, 4 May 2002, William McBrine wrote:

> While I'm posting here, I do have something that I'd like to get some
> feedback about, if possible: The other day I discovered that the DOS
> (i.e., 386 / DJGPP-compiled) version of MultiMail seems to be incompatible
> with HIMEM.SYS (or at least the version provided with MS-DOS 6.22).
> Believe it or not, I'd never run this particular combination before; but I
> recently picked up a used 486 laptop that had been stripped of everything
> before I got it. So the first thing I did was to install DOS*, and the
> second thing was to install MultiMail. :-)

I use Multimail compiled with DJGPP on DOS all the time without this
problem. I am using MS-DOS 6.22 with HIMEM installed. I don't believe
there is a problem with HIMEM itself. However, I have never used it
with PMODE as the DPMI server, just with CWSDPMI. Are you using the
latest version (1.3) of PMODE? Try compiling with either no DPMI stub
in the executable or with CWSDSTUB.EXE from the CWSDPMI version 5
distribution as your DPMI stub.

If you want, I can try your executable on my machine to see what
happens. Are you talking about the precompiled version on the
Multimail site? I haven't recompiled lately and am using version 0.41
with my own modifications. (I had sent you patches which you decided
not to include in the general distribution.) I have Multimail running
on a Pentium 75 machine with 8 Meg RAM.

If there is a problem with the PMODE stub, we should probably let
Charles Sandmann know
                        Doug
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