At 05:56 AM 4/19/2004 +0200, Bernd Blaauw wrote: >>Upper value should be 4194303, which is (4G / 1024) - 1. Not tested nearly that >>high. > >what happens for a too high value: ignored, or set to that (4G/1024 -1) value? >(basically same effect I guess..)
It's whatever is standard for out of bounds parameter values, I haven't checked that. I think it just kicks it out as not allowed and ignores the parameter. You might get an error message, too, if the number parsing routine has one built-in. I'd test it now, but I'm not by the FreeDOS machine. >so "/METHOD:" ties the disk you use HIMEM on in worst case to a single computer >system. No, worst case wouldn't be a single computer system since it flags a particular A20 method. Every A20 method is used by several million computers. Worse case is you explicitly choose a /METHOD: which none of your own computers support and none of them work. But that's true of all MS-DOS and third party utility options which allow you to lock into one particular PC behavior, overriding any automatic testing. You are given enough rope to hang yourself. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: IBM Linux Tutorials Free Linux tutorial presented by Daniel Robbins, President and CEO of GenToo technologies. Learn everything from fundamentals to system administration.http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1470&alloc_id=3638&op=click _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
