Editing Autoexec.bat for Paradox 4.0 for Dos

[livingstons]

I have been running Paradox 4.0 for Dos on a few old Pentium 1 120Mhz machines which are coming to the end of their lives. I want to upgrade the machines but am hitting a wall of having too much RAM. I know this can be overcome by altering the Autoexec.bat file so the machine runs at a maximum of 16000 Meg but do not know how to alter the file to allow me to do this.
Can anyone instruct me to do this operation in simple terms.
Thankyou

 

[Lewy]

livingstons,

If my memory (pardon the pun) serves me correctly, you need to add the following to your config.sys file:

Install the high memory manager, like HIMEM.sys
Include the EMM386.EXE
Include DOS=HIGH or DOS=HIGH,UMB if you wish to load DOS into high memory
Use SMARTDRV.EXE to establish disk caching ( found in your Autoexec.bat file)
Set BUFFERS=15 and FILES=30
Use DEVICEHIGH to load device drivers into upper reserved memory blocks

Therefore you should have in your CONFIG.SYS file the following lines:

Device=HIMEM.SYS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
DEVICE=EMM386.EXE
FILES=30
BUFFERS=15

Then run MemMaker.exe as this will get the best parameters for your machine. Don't forget to make backups of your existing CONGIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.bat files before making any changes.

Better still, why not upgrade to the Windows version of Paradox, best thing I ever did.

Hope this helps,

Lewy

 

[Langley]

What you are referring to is actually a command line function of Paradox. Simply add the following command line argument:

-extk 16000

after the paradox executable.



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