Here are copies of my CONFIG.SYS, AUTOEXEC.BAT, MI printout, and MEM /C
printout.  Using this configuration, I got 616.0K (That's 630,784 bytes folks)
of usable memory under 640K.  This is using the MS DOS 5.0/HIMEM.SYS/EMM386.EXE
combination.  I am using a Gateway 2000 386/33C with 4megs of RAM and a 120MB
IDE hard drive.  One thing to do to get more memory is to keep the environment
small.  Anything that is shown when you type SET at the prompt is in the
environemt.  Make directory names that are put in the path short(the longer the
path, the more memory that is used).  Keep your SET= statements to a minimum.
Also keep them simple.  Set LASTDRIVE to the lowest drive letter needed. I you
have one HD partition, and don't plan on using a ramdrive place LASTDRIVE=C
into you CONFIG.SYS. Other things to do in the CONFIG.SYS is to place FCBS=1
and STACKS=0,0 on separate lines.  Keep the number of files in the CONFIG.SYS
down to the smallest that you need.  There is also a PC Magazine utility called
UMBFILES.COM that will place your files into the UMB.  If you use this utility,
the minimum files in the CONFIG.SYS must be 8, as this is the minimum allowable
by MS-DOS, and the rest will be loaded high.

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                                   CONFIG.SYS

BREAK=ON
DEVICE=C:\DOS\HIMEM.SYS
DEVICE=C:\DOS\EMM386.EXE NOEMS
DOS=HIGH,UMB
STACKS=0,0
FCBS=1
FILES=30
BUFFERS=2
LASTDRIVE=C

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                                  AUTOEXEC.BAT

@ECHO OFF
PROMPT $P)
PATH=C:\;C:\WINDOWS;C:\NDW;C:\PCTOOLS;C:\DOS;C:\NU;C:\QEMM;C:\UTILS;C:\PKZ;C:\A
RJ;C:\VPC
SET TEMP=C:\TMP
EP /ON
IMAGE
C:\STAR\UTIL\VMODE MONITOR
C:\UTILS\SPEEDER +
LH C:\MOUSE\MOUSE.COM
LH C:\DOS\DOSKEY /HISTORY
LH C:\WINDOWS\AD-DOS.COM
LH C:\PCTOOLS\PC-CACHE/SIZEXT=512/WRITE=ON/V1/QUIET
WIN :

LH C:\PCTOOLS\SWAPSH /N
PCSHELL/R

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                                     MI.COM (or MI/A)

Memory Info V7.1 (c)1991 Central Point Software, Inc.

        Total bytes owned
Addr.  Low area  High area   Program or device driver
-----  --------  ---------  --------------------------
0255h    1,184        ..     Device=HIMEM     Attr=A000h  Name=XMSXXXX0
02A0h    8,400        ..     Device=EMM386    Attr=C000h  Name=$MMXXXX0
054Ah    2,624        ..     COMMAND
0600h  630,768        ..     <largest free area>
 ---- Begin High (Upper) Memory ----
C802h      ..       8,288    EP
CA14h      ..      16,752    MOUSE
CE2Ch      ..       4,128    DOSKEY      /HISTORY
CF2Fh      ..       3,904    AD-DOS
D030h      ..      15,664    PC-CACHE C:\PCTOOLS\PC-CACHE.COM/SIZEXT=512/WRITE=
D3F9h      ..       9,232    SWAPSH   C:\PCTOOLS\SWAPSH.COM /N

655,360 bytes (640k) total DOS 5.00 conventional memory.
630,768 bytes (616k) largest executable program.  40,176 bytes if loaded high.

     0  bytes Extended (AT/286/386) memory, reported by BIOS.
 2,283k bytes free, reported by XMS driver version 2.0 (2.77).  HMA in use.

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                                     MEM/C |MORE

Conventional Memory :

  Name                Size in Decimal       Size in Hex
-------------      ---------------------   -------------
  MSDOS              11952      ( 11.7K)       2EB0
  HIMEM               1184      (  1.2K)        4A0
  EMM386              8400      (  8.2K)       20D0
  COMMAND             2624      (  2.6K)        A40
  FREE                  64      (  0.1K)         40
  FREE              630944      (616.2K)      9A0A0

Total  FREE :       631008      (616.2K)

Upper Memory :

  Name                Size in Decimal       Size in Hex
-------------      ---------------------   -------------
  SYSTEM            163840      (160.0K)      28000
  EP                  8288      (  8.1K)       2060
  SWAPSH              9232      (  9.0K)       2410
  MOUSE              16752      ( 16.4K)       4170
  DOSKEY              4128      (  4.0K)       1020
  AD-DOS              3904      (  3.8K)        F40
  PC-CACHE           15664      ( 15.3K)       3D30
  FREE               40176      ( 39.2K)       9CF0

Total  FREE :        40176      ( 39.2K)

Total bytes available to programs (Conventional+Upper) :      671184   (655.5K)
Largest executable program size :                             630768   (616.0K)
Largest available upper memory block :                         40176   ( 39.2K)

   3145728 bytes total contiguous extended memory
         0 bytes available contiguous extended memory
   2337792 bytes available XMS memory
           MS-DOS resident in High Memory Area

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If you have any questions, comments, or helpful memory hint, please write me.


                                          Sean Martin
                                          6044 Camino Alegre
                                          El Paso, TX  79912

If you would like a reply, please send a self addressed stamped envelope.  This
would greatly help as I am just a poor college student.



                              Texas A&M University
                  Fightin' Texas Aggie Class of 1995!  WHOOP!