I have a DOS program running in XP Home. It's a word processor which
indicates what percentage of its available memory is being used with a
particular file.

Problem is, even with a relatively small file the wp says the system is
'low' on memory whereas when its run in Win98 or 95 (multi-boot system)
it shows (with one particular file) 65% memory free (in XP it shows LOW
MEMORY).

My Win9x setups allocate 590KB to a DOS window.

I don't see how to allocate memory to a 'dos window' in XP. Is there a
way? I checked the properties of the window but saw nothing.

Thanks for the help
Vic

You can try putting the program in Windows 95 or 98 compatibility mode.

Run Older Programs on Windows XP:
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...appcompat.mspx

-Dan

"Vic" <nospam@bogusaddress.com> wrote in message
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>I have a DOS program running in XP Home. It's a word processor which
> indicates what percentage of its available memory is being used with a
> particular file.
>
> Problem is, even with a relatively small file the wp says the system is
> 'low' on memory whereas when its run in Win98 or 95 (multi-boot system)
> it shows (with one particular file) 65% memory free (in XP it shows LOW
> MEMORY).
>
> My Win9x setups allocate 590KB to a DOS window.
>
> I don't see how to allocate memory to a 'dos window' in XP. Is there a
> way? I checked the properties of the window but saw nothing.
>
> Thanks for the help
> Vic
>
>

"LittleMoo" <ThisIsNot@My.Email> wrote in message
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> You can try putting the program in Windows 95 or 98 compatibility mode.
>
> Run Older Programs on Windows XP:
> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...appcompat.mspx
>
> -Dan
>
> "Vic" <nospam@bogusaddress.com> wrote in message
> news:O3NvIQ96GHA.2380@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
<snip>
>> Problem is, even with a relatively small file the wp says the system is
>> 'low' on memory whereas when its run in Win98 or 95 (multi-boot system)
>> it shows (with one particular file) 65% memory free (in XP it shows LOW
>> MEMORY).
<snip>
>> I don't see how to allocate memory to a 'dos window' in XP. Is there a
>> way? I checked the properties of the window but saw nothing.

Sorry, I should have added that there is no way to allocate memory to your
program, as it done automatically. However putting your program into
compatibility mode might get rid of the error.

Hi LittleMoo

Tried the suggestion of compatibility mode (Win95) but alas, no joy.
Same message (LOW MEMORY, or sometimes, NO MEMORY). I am concerned if I
use the program HOPING XP will dynamically allocate memory as necessary,
there may be file corruption.

Any other ideas of how to get more baseline memory to this DOS program?

PS: thnx for the link to MS regarding the issue

Vic
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"LittleMoo" <ThisIsNot@My.Email> wrote in message
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> "LittleMoo" <ThisIsNot@My.Email> wrote in message
> news:uZnXQV96GHA.4552@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl...
>> You can try putting the program in Windows 95 or 98 compatibility
>> mode.
>>
>> Run Older Programs on Windows XP:
>> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/u...appcompat.mspx
>>
>> -Dan
>>
>> "Vic" <nospam@bogusaddress.com> wrote in message
>> news:O3NvIQ96GHA.2380@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> <snip>
>>> Problem is, even with a relatively small file the wp says the system
>>> is
>>> 'low' on memory whereas when its run in Win98 or 95 (multi-boot
>>> system)
>>> it shows (with one particular file) 65% memory free (in XP it shows
>>> LOW
>>> MEMORY).
> <snip>
>>> I don't see how to allocate memory to a 'dos window' in XP. Is there
>>> a
>>> way? I checked the properties of the window but saw nothing.
>
> Sorry, I should have added that there is no way to allocate memory to
> your program, as it done automatically. However putting your program
> into compatibility mode might get rid of the error.
>

Vic wrote:

> Hi LittleMoo
>
> Tried the suggestion of compatibility mode (Win95) but alas, no joy.
> Same message (LOW MEMORY, or sometimes, NO MEMORY). I am concerned if I
> use the program HOPING XP will dynamically allocate memory as necessary,
> there may be file corruption.
>
> Any other ideas of how to get more baseline memory to this DOS program?
>
> PS: thnx for the link to MS regarding the issue
>
> Vic
> ___
>

It might not be a question of more base memory for the application
but more extended or expanded memory. Some old DOS programs, and
this might include the particular version of this word processing
program, needs overlays to access the extended or expanded memory.
This is not directly feasible under Windows XP or DOS-emulation in
XP. Read up the installation instructions for the word processing
application; tweaking autoexec.nt and/or config.nt might solve the
problem.