TITLE:              Novell DOS 7 EMM386 and AutoCAD 12
DOCUMENT ID:        TID800160
DOCUMENT REVISION:  1
DATE:               30NOV94
ALERT STATUS:       Yellow
README FOR:         NA

NOVELL PRODUCT and VERSION:
Novell DOS 7

ABSTRACT:
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SYMPTOM:

Extended memory not being released when exiting Autocad version 12.

CAUSE:

Extended memory is released if MSDOS's HIMEM or EMM386 is used. 
Memory was also released if NWDOS's HIMEM was used but the machine
would run real slow.  DPMI was set to OFF (DPMI=OFF) on the EMM386
line in config.sys file.

SOLUTION:

Once DPMI=OFF was changed to DPMI=ON the problem disappeared, and
extended memory was released upon exiting Autocad.  Apparently
Autocad 12 is written as a DPMI application, and so if DPMI is set to
OFF (DPMI=OFF) the memory will not be released.  The problem was
compounded everytime Autocad was launched because more memory was
being used and not released causing the machine to run slower each
time until all memory was occupied and then the machine would hang.

KEYWORDS: XMS, ND7

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