HIMEMX always reports "ignored commandline" and displays garbage when /MAX switch it used

[zhro]

I am using HIMEMX with the /MAX switch to limit the available memory, as the 1GB that is installed causes problems for some programs. While using the /MAX switch does modify the available XMS memory, I always get an error "ignored commandline" and garbage output, sometimes with a system beep, when HIMEMX loads.

I tried both versions 3.36 and 3.37 of HIMEMX and HIMEMX2. This problem exists with both FreeDOS and MS-DOS 7.1 with nothing else in the CONFIG.SYS file and an empty AUTOEXEC.BAT file. I am using an Intel i950 motherboard.

I tried using the switch as:

/MAX=32678, /MAX=32678k, and /MAX=32678K.

[Baron-von-Riedesel]

confirmed - I couldn't reproduce the garbage, but the stack was corrupted due to a wrong "prototype", which might easily have resulted in such an effect.

In the new release v.3.38 this should be fixed.

[zhro]

Thank you for the speedy response! It seems to be fixed now. I also found this error with NUMHANDLES, but this appears to have been fixed now as well.