Re: Question about UMBs

Paul Case <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.os.freedos.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
tom ehlert wrote:

>you can't inform DOS, but DOS will ask you (through function XMS-10)
>to give it all its UMB's (if and only if DOS=UMB).
>
>so you have to install some few bytes, which must remain resident, until
>DOS
>got all the information - and the UMB's.
>see EMM386.ASM (search for UMBsegments), how this can be implemented in a
>few
>bytes.
>unfortunately, you can't uninstall the driver the any more, so these few
>bytes will remain resident forever.
>
That's what I was afraid of.... Oh well though, if that's how it has to 
be done, that's what I'll do (look in my response to Arkady for one 
thought I had about partially solving that).

    Thanks again,
        Paul Case
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