Mark
December 5th 03, 12:25 PM
This is not really answering you problem, but it might be
connected, XP runs the disks using the NTFS file system
as opposed to the FAT32 system,so the DOS components of
your Lotus app (if it's not compatable with XP) might be
misreading your disk/conventional memory!
>-----Original Message-----
>I have just purchased a new computer with WinXP. For
some
>very good reasons, which I'll go into if it's really
>important to someone, I want to continue to run Lotus
123
>for dos on the new computer. (Yes, I have Lotus 123 for
>Windows.) The dos program runs fine on the XP computer,
>but all but the very smallest of my 646 spreadsheets
>say "Error - memory full" when I try to open them. I
have
>adjusted the command prompt shortcut to
provide "Expanded
>Memory", with no improvement. Investigation reveals that
>XP uses much more of "conventional memory" (the original
>640k memory that was all anyone was ever going to need
>when the IBM PC system was invented) than Win 98 uses.
>Lotus 123 for dos uses conventional memory for the bulk
>of each spreadsheet loaded, and there just isn't enough.
>In 95 and 98 there were programs you could run
>like "himem" and "memmaker" which, IIRC, enhanced
>conventional memory.
>
>My question: Does anyone know whether there is a way to
>run himem or memmaker in an XP compupter, or a way to
>fool XP into using less conventional memory?
>
>Yes, I know I could set up the new computer to dual boot
>to XP and 98, or network both computers, but I'd much
>rather find a way to run the dos program more
>successfully under XP, if there is any way to do so.
Yes,
>I know I could split up my spreadsheets to make them
much
>smaller - I have done so for one spreadheet, but I fear
>it would make so many spreadsheets to manage that I
would
>meet myself going to bed when I got up each morning.
>
>Any help would be very much appreciated.
>.
>
connected, XP runs the disks using the NTFS file system
as opposed to the FAT32 system,so the DOS components of
your Lotus app (if it's not compatable with XP) might be
misreading your disk/conventional memory!
>-----Original Message-----
>I have just purchased a new computer with WinXP. For
some
>very good reasons, which I'll go into if it's really
>important to someone, I want to continue to run Lotus
123
>for dos on the new computer. (Yes, I have Lotus 123 for
>Windows.) The dos program runs fine on the XP computer,
>but all but the very smallest of my 646 spreadsheets
>say "Error - memory full" when I try to open them. I
have
>adjusted the command prompt shortcut to
provide "Expanded
>Memory", with no improvement. Investigation reveals that
>XP uses much more of "conventional memory" (the original
>640k memory that was all anyone was ever going to need
>when the IBM PC system was invented) than Win 98 uses.
>Lotus 123 for dos uses conventional memory for the bulk
>of each spreadsheet loaded, and there just isn't enough.
>In 95 and 98 there were programs you could run
>like "himem" and "memmaker" which, IIRC, enhanced
>conventional memory.
>
>My question: Does anyone know whether there is a way to
>run himem or memmaker in an XP compupter, or a way to
>fool XP into using less conventional memory?
>
>Yes, I know I could set up the new computer to dual boot
>to XP and 98, or network both computers, but I'd much
>rather find a way to run the dos program more
>successfully under XP, if there is any way to do so.
Yes,
>I know I could split up my spreadsheets to make them
much
>smaller - I have done so for one spreadheet, but I fear
>it would make so many spreadsheets to manage that I
would
>meet myself going to bed when I got up each morning.
>
>Any help would be very much appreciated.
>.
>