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Win3.1 Printer and swap file (virtual memory)

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First post, by DaveDoesIT

Posted on 2008-10-20, 12:01

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Hi,

I have been using DosBox to run win 3.1 for quite some time and very impressed with it. Thank you very much to the DosBox team.

I am using XP-SP3 with NTFS and yesterday I ran into a printing problem and crashed the system. I reduced the item to print and it worked OK so I suspected it was the win3.1 swap file (virtual memory). I tried to change the swap file size but the max it would allow is 57K.

Does DosBox control the amount of NON-NTFS disk space when I Mount a drive?

If so, how can I expand that?

Thanks in advance.

Dave

Reply 1 of 6, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2008-10-20, 12:10

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Maybe set memsize to the maximum if you didn't already.

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Reply 2 of 6, by DaveDoesIT

Posted on 2008-10-20, 12:53

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Hi HAL,

Thanks for that but I had already tried setting memsize.

It was set at 16 so I made it 50 but it made no difference to the swap file max.

I think memsize applies to RAM memory and not disk size but that's just a guess. Thanks anyway.

Dave

Reply 3 of 6, by h-a-l-9000

Posted on 2008-10-20, 13:14

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DOSBox DOS doesn't support swapfile, but the purpose of the swap file is to extend RAM so more RAM could help your problem. Swapfile probably works if you boot an image file with DOS and Windows on it in DOSBox.

1+1=10

Reply 4 of 6, by DaveDoesIT

Posted on 2008-10-21, 00:38

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Well the swap file is just like another file to windows 3.1 so DosBox would not need to know about it just allocate more space.

It seems as if DosBox is limiting the amount of drive space allocation.

I don't suppose you noticed I said "Win3.1" per chance. That is a 16-bit DOS operating system front end. I have 3G of internal memory for XP but there is no way Win 3.1 can see more than probably 30M of RAM, I can't remember the exact amount.

However Win3.1 could see much more than 57K of disk but it reports that as the max available so I am led to believe it is DosBox limiting disk space.

Dave