Memory at DOS prompt...

[Steven]

Is there any way to increase the amount of memory
available at a DOS prompt?

Here's what I'm dealing with:

C:\>mem

655360 bytes total conventional memory
655360 bytes available to MS-DOS
525528 largest executable program size

1048576 bytes total contiguous extended memory
947250 bytes available contiguous extended memory
941056 bytes available XMS memory
MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area

C:\>

The machine has 1GB of RAM.
I have an old DOS-based application that NEEDS at least
620124 bytes available to MS-DOS in order to even run.
I've tried using the shell command in the config.nt file
and even tried manually shelling out to DOS with the /e
and the /p commands, but to no avail.

Is there something I'm missing?

Thanx.

 

[Ray at]

Please do not multipost.

Ray at work

 

[Ken Simmons [MSFT]]

Hi Steven,

Try running Mem /C and post the output so we can see what is in memory.

Regards,

Ken Simmons

Microsoft Technical Support for Platforms and Business Applications