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GhostScript 8.71 for DOS (Announce)

posted by RayeR , CZ, 23.05.2012, 00:51

It may be problem specific to your system hw/bios/freedos. I use JEMMex with EMS enabled and don't have any instant crashes of DPMI apps. My memory report:

+ Memory Type ------+-- Total Bytes ( Kbytes  ) -+--- Available For Programs -+
|                   |                            |                            |
| Conventional      |       653,312 (     638K ) |       620,352 (      606K) |
| Upper             |        72,912 (      71K ) |        48,128 (       47K) |
| High              |        65,520 (      64K ) |        12,512 (       12K) |
| Extended          |    67,043,328 (  65,472K ) |             0 (        0K) |
| Extended via XMS  |          --------          | 3,486,466,048 (3,404,752K) |
| EMS               |    33,947,648 (  33,152K ) |    33,554,432 (   32,768K) |
+-------------------+----------------------------+----------------------------+
| Largest executable program:  620,256 ( 606K )                               |
| Total Free DOS memory:       668,480 ( 653K )                               |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+

I use DOS 6.22 as reference and here's my part of config.sys:

DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=C:\DOS\JEMMEX.EXE A20METHOD:FAST XMSHANDLES=64 SPLIT SB FASTBOOT VERBOSE
STACKS=9,256
BUFFERS=15
LASTDRIVE=Z
FCBS=4,0
FILES=60
rem ATAPICD.SYS replaced by UIDE.SYS
SHELL=C:\COMMAND.COM C:\ /E:1536 /P


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• FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 05.05.2012, 13:32 (Announce)
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                              • FlWriter version 1.1 available - RayeR, 12.05.2012, 00:36
                                • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 12.05.2012, 08:40
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                                    • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - georgpotthast, 13.05.2012, 10:00
                                      • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - Rugxulo, 22.05.2012, 01:07
                                        • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - RayeR, 23.05.2012, 00:51
                                          • GhostScript 8.71 for DOS - Rugxulo, 23.05.2012, 05:39
                  • FlWriter version 1.1 available - Doug, 10.05.2012, 18:02
              • FlWriter version 1.1 available - georgpotthast, 09.05.2012, 08:29