wine users - Sep 2001 - Wine and expanded memory

Greetings --

I have a DOS .exe file that I would like to run in Wine (the underlying
Windows is Win2K); it gives the error "Needs 1024K of expanded
memory."
I have a PIF file which supposedly sets up this memory environment, but
.PIF files cannot be loaded by Wine. 

Possible solutions: 
* Make wine make the .exe think there is 1024K of expanded memory. 
* Make wine run the .pif file using something like WinExec, thereby
working. 
* Use some magic incantation of Windows rundll32 to load window's PIF
parser and do all the work of setting up the memory. 

Any thoughts on how to do any of these, preferably the one that works. 

Thanks,
Algis R.

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         Algis Rudys        Rice University
  arudys at rice.edu        Computer Science
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On Sat, 22 Sep 2001, Algis Rudys wrote:
> Greetings --
> 
> I have a DOS .exe file that I would like to run in Wine (the underlying
> Windows is Win2K); it gives the error "Needs 1024K of expanded
memory."
> I have a PIF file which supposedly sets up this memory environment, but
> .PIF files cannot be loaded by Wine. 
> 
> Possible solutions: 
> * Make wine make the .exe think there is 1024K of expanded memory. 
> * Make wine run the .pif file using something like WinExec, thereby
> working. 
> * Use some magic incantation of Windows rundll32 to load window's PIF
> parser and do all the work of setting up the memory. 
"Running" the .pif is no solution, a .pif is just a data file that
tells
Windows's DOS box what it's allowed to and not allowed to do, it does
not
provide anything beyond that. The actual mechanisms still need to be
implemented in the actual DOS box, and Wine cannot implement EMS before
the DOS support restructure is completed (and nobody seems to be working
on that at the moment).