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Acad and Windows 3.0

    24-Nov-91 16:48:50
Fm: Larry Beck [Windows TM] 70564,3544
To: Kirk P. Dewey 72520,3141
Kirk: The simplest configuration to run Acad R11 from inside of Windows is to put HIMEM.SYS as the first line in your CONFIG.SYS file and *not* use any other memory managers. Edit your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to include all of the environmental variables you need (SET ACAD=, SET ACADCFG=, DLP vars, etc). Then make sure you have v2.6 of the PharLap DOS Extender (this is the version creating when applying NEWDX.EXE). Start Windows in Standard Mode and create a PIF file for AutoCAD, specifying a minimum of 2Mb free XMS and a maximum of, say, 4Mb or 6Mb, depending on your preferences. This should get you going. There are more complex ways of achieving this, but this is by far the simplest. Let me know if you have any problems. Larry