Epson Equity LT-386SX, User Manual

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About EMM386.SYS
EMM386.SYS is an expanded memory manager that lets you
use extended memory above 1MB to emulate expanded memory
so that you can use application programs that support LIM 4.0.
The full syntax for the command line that activates
EMM386.SYS is:
DEVICE=[d:][path]EMM386.SYS[size]
[X:mmmm-nnnn][Mx]
The items in brackets are optional; you do not type the brackets
when you enter the command. The following paragraphs
describe the items in the command line.
d:path specifies a pathname. You need to add the pathname if
the file EMM386.SYS is not in the root directory of the disk
used to boot MS-DOS. For example, if EMM386.SYS is in a
directory called \DOS on drive C:, be sure to include a
pathname, like this:
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.SYS
size
allows you to specify the number of kilobytes of extended
memory to use as expanded memory. The default is 256KB. For
example, to convert 1MB (1024KB) of extended memory to
LIM 4.0 expanded memory, include this command in your
CONFIG.SYS file:
DEVICE=EMM386.SYS 1024
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MS-DOS With
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