Author: Barry Culp
Date: 09:49:18 01/06/99
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On January 05, 1999 at 12:07:10, Enrique Irazoqui wrote: >On January 05, 1999 at 11:54:32, Barry Culp wrote: > >>I have a problem with Hiarcs 5 and 6 on a PII-450 system. When I boot up >>WIN98 and choose the "Safe mode command prompt only" option, and >>then start HIARCS with the -X option to achieve max 64mb hash tables, my system >>freezes. I know of 2 other people with PII-4xx systems who have the same >>problem. The programmer of Hiarcs knows about my problem but has not given >>me any feedback... (: (: (: >> >>Has anyone else run into this ? >> >>P.S. Hiarcs does work fine on my system when using a normal WIN98 DOS box with >>128k hash tables > >Do you have himem.sys loaded? With a memory manager Hiarcs -x won't work. Before >loading Hiarcs, you can type mem /p and see if himem.sys is loaded. It shouldn't >be. > >I have no problems at all on PII-400s with 256MB RAM, with W95 and now with W98. > >Enrique Himem.sys is not loaded when you boot with "safe mode command prompt only" Himem.sys is loaded when you boot with "command prompt only". If you try to start Hiarcs with the -X option in this scenario, Hiarcs will end with error code 261. Unfortunately none of this helps me with my problem. Barry
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