Where can I find Memmaker files

Where can I locate the Memmaker files for Dos 7.0 in Windows98SE ? Or do
they not even exist. When windows98SE is installed on a computer just
containing DOS it has to maximize the memory for the OS somewhere in the
setup files for installation. I have found all of the files for DOS 7.0 in
the Windows\, the Windows\command\ and the Windows\command\ebd\
directories including himem.sys and emm386, but nowhere can I seem to find
the files for memmaker. Does anyone know the location for these on an
already installed system or on the Windows98SE installation CD ?

I'm not sure if memaker exists or not. There are additional DOS files
in two folders on the Windows 98 CD that are not placed on the hard
drive at all, memmaker may be in one of those. I don't remember the
names of these folders, but I think that one of them is
{something}\olddos and the other is {something}\tools. It is very
possible, but not certain, that the DOS 6.22 memaker would work under
DOS 7 as well, but I haven't tried it.

Of course, memmaker doesn't do anything that you can't do manually, but
getting your device drivers and TSRs arranged manually can be tedious.


john orwen wrote:
> Where can I locate the Memmaker files for Dos 7.0 in Windows98SE ? Or do
> they not even exist. When windows98SE is installed on a computer just
> containing DOS it has to maximize the memory for the OS somewhere in the
> setup files for installation. I have found all of the files for DOS 7.0 in
> the Windows\, the Windows\command\ and the Windows\command\ebd\
> directories including himem.sys and emm386, but nowhere can I seem to find
> the files for memmaker. Does anyone know the location for these on an
> already installed system or on the Windows98SE installation CD ?
>
>

I think you might be slightly confusing one nested directory as two seperate
hidden directories on the Windows98SE installation CD ?

On my installation CD, I found a hidden directory /TOOLS and within that
hidden directory I found a subdirectory /OLDMSDOS.

In /OLDMSDOS I found only 7 files that were not locatable on the hard drive.
They are EXT.exe, HELP.com, HELP.hlp, MSD.exe, QBASIC.exe, QBASIC.hlp,
SMARTDRV.exe.

I cannot find any other directory visible classic or hidden (show all files)
that contains anything related to DOS.

Maybe someone has a better recolation that the two of us so far. Lets keep
digging until we unearth it all.

"Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
news:47114349$0$15363$4c368faf@roadrunner.com...
> I'm not sure if memaker exists or not. There are additional DOS files in
> two folders on the Windows 98 CD that are not placed on the hard drive at
> all, memmaker may be in one of those. I don't remember the names of these
> folders, but I think that one of them is {something}\olddos and the other
> is {something}\tools. It is very possible, but not certain, that the DOS
> 6.22 memaker would work under DOS 7 as well, but I haven't tried it.
>
> Of course, memmaker doesn't do anything that you can't do manually, but
> getting your device drivers and TSRs arranged manually can be tedious.
>
>
> john orwen wrote:
>> Where can I locate the Memmaker files for Dos 7.0 in Windows98SE ? Or do
>> they not even exist. When windows98SE is installed on a computer just
>> containing DOS it has to maximize the memory for the OS somewhere in the
>> setup files for installation. I have found all of the files for DOS 7.0
>> in the Windows\, the Windows\command\ and the Windows\command\ebd\
>> directories including himem.sys and emm386, but nowhere can I seem to
>> find the files for memmaker. Does anyone know the location for these on
>> an already installed system or on the Windows98SE installation CD ?

Hi!

> Where can I locate the Memmaker files for Dos 7.0 in Windows98SE ?

They don't exist. You can upgrade from an installation of Windows 3.1/DOS
6.22 and if you do, MemMaker will be kept in place and usable.

What benefit it provides I am not sure. I've never found a need to use it,
or to extract a copy from the MS-DOS setup diskettes. Maybe if you had a lot
of drivers and programs loading in CONFIG.SYS or AUTOEXEC.BAT...?

> When windows98SE is installed on a computer just containing DOS it has
> to maximize the memory for the OS somewhere in the setup files for
> installation.

I think you mean that access to extended memory has to be enabled before
setup can run. If that's the case, the Windows 98 and 98SE setup packages
both contain XMSMMGR.EXE. XMSMMGR.EXE is nothing more than a command-line
loadable version of HIMEM.SYS.

When Windows 98 is up and running, it takes care of extended memory
management automatically. You don't even have to load HIMEM.SYS in
CONFIG.SYS as you did in Windows 95. I'm not sure that Windows 98 doesn't
silently invoke HIMEM when it starts.

William