MemMaker Copies HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE to C: \DOS (93434)

SUMMARY

When you run MemMaker and you have MS-DOS installed on a drive other than your startup (boot) drive (which is usually drive C), MemMaker creates a directory on the C drive that has the same name as the directory that MemMaker was run from and copies the following files to that directory:

MEMMAKER.EXE
MEMMAKER.HLP
MEMMAKER.INF
EMM386.EXE
HIMEM.SYS
CHKSTATE.SYS
SIZER.EXE

During the optimization process, it also creates MEMMAKER.STS.

NOTE: The original startup drive may not be drive C if you have a program such as Stacker from STAC Electronics.

MORE INFORMATION

If MemMaker is run from the D:\MSDOS.622 directory, it creates a C:\MSDOS.622 directory, copies the files listed above to that directory, and changes the DEVICE= statements in the CONFIG.SYS file to point to drive C to ensure that the files are found when MemMaker restarts the system. MemMaker copies these files to the startup drive because MemMaker moves the device= statements for HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE to the top of the CONFIG.SYS file. Because these files are then loaded before any devices that might perform drive swapping, MemMaker must be sure it can find the files it needs to optimize your system's memory.

MemMaker does not remove these files after it has completed its optimization. To remove these changes, edit the CONFIG.SYS file and make sure the device= lines for HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE point to the drive that contains your full MS-DOS directory. You can then safely delete the directory on drive C created by MemMaker.

Using SUBST

If you have a C:\DOS directory but use the SUBST command to remap the directory to another drive letter such as R: and place the MS-DOS directory into the PATH as R:\, MemMaker does not create a C:\DOS directory. Instead, MemMaker creates a C:\MEMMAKER directory and copies the above files into the new directory. MemMaker displays a message that it is copying files to the startup drive. MemMaker also leaves the HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE lines in the CONFIG.SYS file pointing to the C:\MEMMAKER directory. The old CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT files are in the C:\MEMMAKER directory.

NOTE: Using the SUBST command to map directories to unused single drive letters saves space in the PATH statement, which is limited to 128 characters. This works on drives that are uncompressed, as well as on drives compressed with DoubleSpace.